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Physical function‐derived cut‐points for the diagnosis of sarcopenia and dynapenia from the Canadian longitudinal study on aging

BACKGROUND: Aging is associated with sarcopenia (low muscle mass) and dynapenia (low muscle strength) leading to disability and mortality. Widely used previous cut‐points for sarcopenia were established from dated, small, or pooled cohorts. We aimed to identify cut‐points of low strength as a determ...

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Autores principales: Tessier, Anne‐Julie, Wing, Simon S., Rahme, Elham, Morais, José A., Chevalier, Stéphanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6818452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31307126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12462

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