The FNIH Sarcopenia Project: Rationale, Study Description, Conference Recommendations, and Final Estimates

BACKGROUND. Low muscle mass and weakness are common and potentially disabling in older adults, but in order to become recognized as a clinical condition, criteria for diagnosis should be based on clinically relevant thresholds and independently validated. The Foundation for the National Institutes o...

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Main Authors: Studenski, Stephanie A., Peters, Katherine W., Alley, Dawn E., Cawthon, Peggy M., McLean, Robert R., Harris, Tamara B., Ferrucci, Luigi, Guralnik, Jack M., Fragala, Maren S., Kenny, Anne M., Kiel, Douglas P., Kritchevsky, Stephen B., Shardell, Michelle D., Dam, Thuy-Tien L., Vassileva, Maria T.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3991146/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24737557
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glu010
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