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Sarcopenia: Diagnosis and treatment

John E. Morley
- 01 Aug 2008 - 
- Vol. 12, Iss: 7, pp 452-456
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This article is published in Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging.The article was published on 2008-08-01. It has received 328 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sarcopenia & Testosterone (patch).

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An overview of sarcopenia: facts and numbers on prevalence and clinical impact

TL;DR: Treatment of sarcopenia remains challenging, but promising results have been obtained using progressive resistance training, testosterone, estrogens, growth hormone, vitamin D, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.
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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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Low relative skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) in older persons is associated with functional impairment and physical disability.

TL;DR: To establish the prevalence of sarc Openia in older Americans and to test the hypothesis that sarcopenia is related to functional impairment and physical disability in older persons is established.
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Sarcopenia: Origins and Clinical Relevance

TL;DR: Sarcopenia as mentioned in this paper is a Greek word that describes important changes in body composition and related functions, which can be used to classify patients and examine underlying pathogenic mechanisms and will allow funding agencies to appropriately target research funds to a taxonomically distinct syndrome.
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Age Trends in the Level of Serum Testosterone and Other Hormones in Middle-Aged Men: Longitudinal Results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study

TL;DR: The paradoxical finding that longitudinal age trends were steeper than cross-sectional trends suggests that incident poor health may accelerate the age-related decline in androgen levels.
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Effect of Vitamin D on falls: a meta-analysis

TL;DR: Vitamin D supplementation appears to reduce the risk of falls among ambulatory or institutionalized older individuals with stable health by more than 20%.
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