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The Reference Value of Skeletal Muscle Mass Index for Defining the Sarcopenia of Women in Korea

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia is considering important disease entity in elderly. Several study groups define the sum of the muscle masses of the four limbs as appendicular skeletal mass (ASM) to calculate skeletal muscle index (SMI). The purpose of this study was to determine cut point of SMI for sarcopen...

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Autores principales: Kwon, Hyoung-Joon, Ha, Yong-Chan, Park, Hyoung-Moo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4466447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26082916
http://dx.doi.org/10.11005/jbm.2015.22.2.71