Prevalence of Sarcopenia in Healthy Korean Elderly Women
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Prevalence of Sarcopenia in Healthy Korean Elderly Women
BACKGROUND We evaluated the prevalence of sarcopenia, presarcopenia, and severe sarcopenia in healthy Korean elderly women. METHODS We measured the muscle mass and muscle function of 196 ambulatory women over the age of 65 years who visited the University Hospital Menopause Clinic. Appendicular skeletal muscle mass was measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry to measure skeletal muscle ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bone Metabolism
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2287-6375,2287-7029
DOI: 10.11005/jbm.2015.22.4.191