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Muscle Ultrasound and Sarcopenia in Older Individuals: A Clinical Perspective.

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The current literature does not allow to make conclusive recommendations about the use of muscle ultrasound in geriatric practice, but this technique is very promising, and further studies should validate its applications in the context of sarcopenia assessment.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 183 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sarcopenia.

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Aging Gut Microbiota at the Cross-Road between Nutrition, Physical Frailty, and Sarcopenia: Is There a Gut-Muscle Axis?

TL;DR: Even if there is no evidence of a distinct gut microbiota composition in older sarcopenic patients, the literature supports the possible presence of a “gut–muscle axis”, whereby gut microbiota may act as the mediation of the effects of nutrition on muscle cells.
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Sarcopenia: assessment of disease burden and strategies to improve outcomes.

TL;DR: Because sarcopenia is associated with important adverse health outcomes, such as frailty, hospitalization, and mortality, several therapeutic strategies have been identified that involve exercise training, nutritional supplementation, hormonal therapies, and novel strategies and are still under investigation.
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Defining sarcopenia: the impact of different diagnostic criteria on the prevalence of sarcopenia in a large middle aged cohort

TL;DR: It is concluded that the prevalence of sarcopenia is highly dependent on the applied diagnostic criteria and it is necessary to reach a consensus on the definition of sarc Openia in order to make studies comparable and for implementation in clinical care.
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Epidemiology of Sarcopenia among the Elderly in New Mexico

TL;DR: Some of the first estimates of the extent of the public health problem posed by sarcopenia are provided, independent of ethnicity, age, morbidity, obesity, income, and health behaviors.
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Skeletal muscle mass and distribution in 468 men and women aged 18–88 yr

TL;DR: It is indicated that men have more SM than women and that these gender differences are greater in the upper body.
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