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Body composition associations with muscle strength in older adults living in Auckland, New Zealand.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundAging is associated with decreases in muscle strength and simultaneous changes in body composition, including decreases in muscle mass, muscle quality and increases in adiposity.MethodsAdults (n = 369; 236 females) aged 65-74 years living ...
Anne N Hiol, Pamela R von Hurst, Cathryn A Conlon, Owen Mugridge, Kathryn L Beck   +4 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of the five times stand-to-sit test for the screening of global muscle weakness in community-dwelling older women

Experimental Gerontology, 2023
Background: Although the 5 times stand-to-sit test (5TSST) is indicated for screening for muscle weakness in older adults, its validity is based only on the correlation with quadriceps muscle strength or with the muscle strength of a few muscle groups of
Jaqueline Mello Porto, Melise Jacon Peres-Ueno, Roberta de Matos Brunelli Braghin, Gabriela Martins Scudilio, Daniela Cristina Carvalho de Abreu   +4 more
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Quadriceps muscle strength in scoliosis [PDF]

European Respiratory Journal, 2009
Quadriceps muscle weakness is an important component of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We hypothesised that quadriceps weakness would also be a feature of restrictive lung disease due to scoliosis.We studied 10 patients with severe scoliosis (median (interquartile range (IQR)) forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)35.3 (11)% predicted ...
Swallow, E.B., Barreiro, E., Gosker, H.R., Sathyapala, S.A., Sanchez, F., Hopkinson, N.S., Moxham, J., Schols, A., Gea, J., Polkey, M.I.   +9 more
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Muscle Wasting among Hospitalized Children: A Narrative Review of the Feasibility and Accuracy of Diagnostic Methods

Children, 2023
Muscle wasting is associated with a worse quality of life and increased morbidity and mortality among hospitalized children, especially those with chronic diseases.
Sheikha AlQahtani, Dara Aldisi
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Association of Low Muscle Mass and Isokinetic Strength with Metabolic Syndrome

Journal of Men's Health, 2020
Background and objectives Sarcopenia and metabolic syndrome (MetS) increase incidence with age. This study evaluated the prevalence of MetS in middle-age to elderly men according to knee and grip strength and muscle mass. Methods Data from 256 males aged
Hoyoun Kim, Yong Hwan Kim, Won Kim
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Muscle fatique and muscle damage in strength training

Physical Education of Students, 2022
Background and Study Aim. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of different types of contractions on muscle damage and muscle fatigue in sedentary individuals. Material and Methods. Thirty healthy male sedentary individuals participated
Veysel Böge, Süleyman Patlar
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Associations of muscle mass, strength, and quality with all-cause mortality in China: a population-based cohort study

Chinese Medical Journal, 2022
. Background. It remains unclear about the association of muscle mass, strength, and quality with death in the general Chinese population of diverse economical and geographical backgrounds.
Man Wu, Yuxia Wei, Jun Lv, Yu Guo, Pei Pei, Jiachen Li, Huaidong Du, Ling Yang, Yiping Chen, Xiaohui Sun, Hua Zhang, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Canqing Yu, Liming Li, on behalf of the China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, Jing Ni   +16 more
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Respiratory muscle strength in pregnancy [PDF]

Respiratory Medicine, 2010
Muscle respiratory strength studies during pregnancy are very scarce. The aim of this paper is to describe maximum inspiratory (PImax) and expiratory (PEmax) mean pressure values in women during their first pregnancy and to determine the relationship between the anthropometric, morphologic and physiologic variables of these pressures.One hundred and ...
Lemos, Andrea, Impieri de Souza, Ariani, Figueiroa, José Natal, Cabral-Filho, José Eulálio, Dornelas de Andrade, Armele   +4 more
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Does longer-muscle length resistance training cause greater longitudinal growth in humans? A systematic review

Sports Medicine and Health Science
Background: This paper aimed to systematically review the literature regarding the effects of resistance training (RT) performed at longer-muscle length (LML) versus shorter-muscle length (SML) on proxy measurements for longitudinal hypertrophy. Methods:
Milo Wolf, Patroklos Androulakis Korakakis, Michael D. Roberts, Daniel L. Plotkin, Martino V. Franchi, Bret Contreras, Menno Henselmans, Stian Larsen, Brad J. Schoenfeld   +8 more
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The association between muscle strength and executive function in children and adolescents: Based on survey evidence in rural areas of China

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
BackgroundIn recent years, muscle strength in children and adolescents has continued to decline, especially in rural areas. Executive function as a higher function of the brain, is closely related to the future achievement of children and adolescents ...
Qiang Zeng, Xin Hu, Yujie Wang
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