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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |