Foreign allometric exponents adequately normalize isokinetic knee extension strength to identify muscle weakness and mobility limitation in Portuguese older adults: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Identifying muscle weakness is challenging, because the reduction of strength with aging does not depend only on sarcopenia, but also on sensorimotor deficits. Nevertheless, this identification is improved by adjusting muscle strength allometrically, by removing the influence of body siz...

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Autores principales: Machado, Dalmo Roberto Lopes, Abdalla, Pedro Pugliesi, Bohn, Lucimere, Stratton, Gareth, Mota, Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9479406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36114479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03413-9

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