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Obesity-associated poor muscle quality: prevalence and association with age, sex, and body mass index

BACKGROUND: Muscle quality (i.e., the expression of muscle function per unit of muscle mass) has been proposed as a clinically-relevant measure to detect individuals at risk of functional incapacity. Individuals with obesity might be at an increased risk of having poor muscle quality. Thus, we aimed...

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Autores principales: Valenzuela, Pedro L., Maffiuletti, Nicola A., Tringali, Gabriella, De Col, Alessandra, Sartorio, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32234006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03228-y