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Cutpoints for Low Appendicular Lean Mass That Identify Older Adults With Clinically Significant Weakness

BACKGROUND. Low lean mass is potentially clinically important in older persons, but criteria have not been empirically validated. As part of the FNIH (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health) Sarcopenia Project, this analysis sought to identify cutpoints in lean mass by dual-energy x-ray ab...

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Autores principales: Cawthon, Peggy M., Peters, Katherine W., Shardell, Michelle D., McLean, Robert R., Dam, Thuy-Tien L., Kenny, Anne M., Fragala, Maren S., Harris, Tamara B., Kiel, Douglas P., Guralnik, Jack M., Ferrucci, Luigi, Kritchevsky, Stephen B., Vassileva, Maria T., Studenski, Stephanie A., Alley, Dawn E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24737559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glu023