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Obesity-associated poor muscle quality: prevalence and association with age, sex, and body mass index

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2020
Background Muscle quality (i.e., the expression of muscle function per unit of muscle mass) has been proposed as a clinically-relevant measure to detect individuals at risk of functional incapacity.
Pedro L. Valenzuela, Nicola A. Maffiuletti, Gabriella Tringali, Alessandra De Col, Alessandro Sartorio   +4 more
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Associations between sarcopenia and circulating branched-chain amino acids: a cross-sectional study over 100,000 participants

BMC Geriatrics
Background Emerging evidence suggests that alterations in BCAA metabolism may contribute to the pathogenesis of sarcopenia. However, the relationship between branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and sarcopenia is incompletely understood, and existing ...
HuiMin Liu, Qiang Zhang, QianMeng Hao, QingSheng Li, LingFei Yang, Xuan Yang, KaiXin Wang, JunFang Teng, Zhe Gong, YanJie Jia   +9 more
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Intensification of Back Muscle Strength Testing in Physical Education of Students by Applying Information and Communication Technologies

, 2022
Zinoviy Mykytyuk, Оксана Блавт, Yaroslav Hnatchuk, Oleh Stechkevych, Тetiana Helzhynska   +4 more
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Associations between isokinetic muscle strength, high-level functional performance, and physiological parameters in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

International Journal of COPD, 2012
Scotty J Butcher,1 Brendan J Pikaluk,2 Robyn L Chura,1 Mark J Walkner,1 Jonathan P Farthing,2 Darcy D Marciniuk31School of Physical Therapy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; 2College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Butcher SJ, Pikaluk BJ, Chura RL, Walkner MJ, Farthing JP, Marciniuk DD   +5 more
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Perch essence prevents cell death to improve skeletal muscle mass and strength: Evidence from in vitro and human model

, 2023
Chih‐Cheng Lin, Chih‐Yu Hsieh, Ling-Ni Chen, Mao‐Hsiang Lee, Yi-Han Ting, Ting‐Ming Wang, Jia‐Feng Chang   +6 more
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Quadriceps strength in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Lung India, 2019
Background: Skeletal muscle dysfunction is well known in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The muscle strength is altered in various muscles variedly. Lower-limb muscle strength is very important for walking distance.
Swati Shah, Bhushan Darekar, Sundeep Salvi, Arun Kowale   +3 more
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Correlation between Mid Upper Arm Muscle Area/Size and Muscle Strength

Althea Medical Journal, 2016
Background: Muscle area/size reflects the true magnitude of muscle tissue changes. Muscle strength is an active tension generated by muscle that depends on its capacity to exert force on an object. The relation between the quantity of muscle area and the
Tan Yong Bin, Vitriana , Titing Nurhayati   +2 more
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The Effects of Regional Muscle Strength and Mass on Standing Long Jump Performance

Muscles
Muscle strength and mass strongly influence performance. The role of the trunk, upper limbs, and lower limbs in a specific performance is important but unclear in terms of muscle strength, muscle mass, and the degree of influence of each part.
Yuki Nakai, Yujiro Usumoto, Yasufumi Takeshita   +2 more
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Muscle strength deficits are associated with low bone mineral density in young pediatric cancer survivors: The iBoneFIT project

Journal of Sport and Health Science
Background: Pediatric cancer survivors are at increased risk of muscle weakness and low areal bone mineral density (aBMD). However, the prevalence of muscle strength deficits is not well documented, and the associations of muscle strength with aBMD are ...
Andres Marmol-Perez, Jose J. Gil-Cosano, Esther Ubago-Guisado, Francisco J. Llorente-Cantarero, Juan Francisco Pascual-Gázquez, Kirsten K. Ness, Vicente Martinez-Vizcaino, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Luis Gracia-Marco   +8 more
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Associations between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 level and skeletal muscle mass and lower limb muscle strength in Japanese middle-aged subjects

Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia, 2017
Objectives: One of the important risk factors of falling is decreased muscle mass and muscle strength. Recently, there has been an increasing concern on the role of vitamin D in muscle strength and physical activity.
Akiko Kuwabara, Naoko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Kondo, Misora Ao, Hitomi Fujiwara, Natsuki Hosokawa, Shiho Matsumoto, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Tetsuo Nakano   +8 more
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