Age-associated changes in skeletal muscles and their effect on mobility: an operational diagnosis of sarcopenia.

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Summary

Optimal cutoff values that can be used in the clinical practice to identify older persons with poor mobility were developed and lay the basis for a cost-effective, clinical marker of sarcopenia based on a measure of isometric handgrip strength.

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2003-11-01
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Sarcopenia, Isometric exercise, Medicine, Skeletal muscle, Physical medicine and rehabilitation

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