However, when gradual muscle loss starts to severely affect an older adult’s strength and ability to live, the condition is diagnosed as sarcopenia. If left untreated, sarcopenia may increase ...

People with sarcopenia who also had depression were 3.2 times more likely to experience lower back pain, with prevalence reaching nearly 54%. Lifestyle factors also played important roles.

"In the diagnosis of sarcopenia, clinical assessment based on BMI [body mass index] alone is insufficient; therefore, muscle strength testing should be included in the routine anthropometric ...

However, these subtle changes often signal something more significant happening beneath the surface: age-related muscle loss, or sarcopenia. This natural process begins much earlier and progresses ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “There is no such thing as an innocent map,” observes Philippe Rekacewicz in his catalogue essay that ...

Credit: Getty Images Researchers conducted an analysis of the MrOS study to assess the relationship between sex hormone level changes and sarcopenia risk among older men. Greater longitudinal declines ...

Raju Vaishya from the Department of Orthopaedics, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, and colleagues have provided a comprehensive overview of influential global research at the intersection of diabetes ...

AI and ECGs, novel ways to treat hypertension, combined lipid-lowering therapy after myocardial infarction, PFA and silent stroke, a move toward accountability in AF ablation, and pacing issues in ...

The skeletal system comprises 206 bones and has two main parts: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The skeletal system includes your bones, ligaments that attach bone to bone, and ...

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