Issues concerning sarcopenia in ageing adults
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Issues concerning sarcopenia in ageing adults.
Sir, Cruz-Jentoff et al. present a valuable review of the difficult field of clinical measurements of sarcopenia [1]. However, several problems remain that limit full acceptance of their calculations. First, all or most of the current methods employed for measurement of muscle mass or fat-free mass (FFM) have associated assumptions and technical issues, and questionable accuracy in assessing sm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1468-2834,0002-0729
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afu207