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A New Equation to Estimate Muscle Mass from Creatinine and Cystatin C

BACKGROUND: With evaluation for physical performance, measuring muscle mass is an important step in detecting sarcopenia. However, there are no methods to estimate muscle mass from blood sampling. METHODS: To develop a new equation to estimate total-body muscle mass with serum creatinine and cystati...

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Autores principales: Kim, Sun-wook, Jung, Hee-Won, Kim, Cheol-Ho, Kim, Kwang-il, Chin, Ho Jun, Lee, Hajeong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26849842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148495