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Frequency of sarcopenia and associated factors among hospitalized elderly patients

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia is an important public health problem that affects mainly elders, and has negative consequences, such as disability and even death. Due to the lack of studies evaluating sarcopenia in elderly persons hospitalized in Brazil, the aim of the present study was to describe the freq...

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Autores principales: Martinez, Bruno Prata, Batista, Anne Karine Menezes Santos, Gomes, Isabela Barboza, Olivieri, Flávia Milholo, Camelier, Fernanda Warken Rosa, Camelier, Aquiles Assunção
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425884/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25943762
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-015-0570-x