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Open AccessFive-Time Sit-To-Stand Lower Limb Muscle Power in Older Women: An Explorative, Descriptive and Comparative Analysis
Muscle power assessment entails the use of complex equipment which impacts its clinical applicability. Recently, equations to estimate lower-limb muscle power measures based on 5-repetition sit-to-stand (5STS)...
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Open AccessBody composition parameters and sarcopenia in adults with Down syndrome: a case–control study
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience premature aging. Whether accelerated aging involves changes in body composition parameters and is associated with early development of sarcopenia is unclear.
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Open AccessPhysical performance and negative events in very old adults: a longitudinal study examining the ilSIRENTE cohort
Declining physical performance in old age is associated with a wide range of negative health-related outcomes. However, it is unclear which physical capabilities should be prioritized to obtain prognostic info...
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Open AccessAssociations Between Hypertension, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, and Physical Performance in Very Old Adults: Results from the ilSIRENTE Study
Results regarding the associations between hypertension-related parameters and physical performance in older adults are conflicting. A possible explanation for these divergent results is that investigations ma...
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Mitochondrial Alterations and Signaling in Aging, Frailty, and Sarcopenia: An Integrated View
Aging, a highly complex and multifactorial process, can be framed as a physiological mismatch resulting from decreasing resilience and increasing levels of damage generation and accumulation. Intrinsic drivers...
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Sarcopenia
During the last decade, sarcopenia has become one of the hottest topics in geriatrics. Sarcopenia is a major challenge in geriatrics due to its association with numerous negative health-related outcomes, such ...
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Nutritional Aspects of Frailty in Older Adults: Undernutrition, Nutrients Consumption, and Diet Patterns
Healthy dietary habits have long been known as a modifiable lifestyle that might affect health. Intellectuals in Ancients Greece and Rome described the properties of many food groups and advised about how they...
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Open AccessAdherence to aerobic training combined with high protein intake is associated with low blood pressure in Italian older adults: a cross-sectional study
Lifestyle habits have a key role in cardiometabolic health. The effects of combined aerobic training (AT) and high protein intake (HPI) on cardiometabolic parameters in older adults are not well established.
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Protein Intake from Various Foods Sources Is Negatively Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Italian Older Adults
To examine the relationships between protein intake from various food sources and cardiometabolic risk markers in Italian older adults.
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Open AccessMuscle power-related parameters in middle-aged and older Brazilian women: a cross-sectional study
The present study was conducted to provide normative values for lower-limb muscle power estimated through equations based on the 5 times sit-to-stand (5STS) test in Brazilian older women. In addition, we inves...
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Mediterranean Diet, In-Hospital Exercise, and the Incidence of Hospital-Acquired Disability in Old Patients
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During the last decade, sarcopenia has become one of the hottest topics in geriatrics. Sarcopenia is a major challenge in geriatrics due to its association with numerous negative health-related outcomes, such ...
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Open AccessGait characteristics in community-dwelling older persons with low skeletal muscle mass and low physical performance
Demographic changes in the western world entail new clinical approaches and challenges in older persons. Low skeletal muscle mass and low physical performance in older persons are both predisposing conditions ...
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Open AccessSelf-reported difficulty in walking 400 meters: the “red flag” for probable sarcopenia
Sarcopenia is associated with adverse outcomes in older people. Several tools are recommended to assess muscle mass, muscle strength and physical performance, but are not always available in daily practice.
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Evidence-based recommendations for resistance and power training to prevent frailty in community-dwellers
Frailty is a reversible state of reduced resilience to stressful events resulting from a multisystem impairment of the human body. As frailty progresses, people become more vulnerable to numerous adverse event...
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Identification of biomarkers for physical frailty and sarcopenia through a new multi-marker approach: results from the BIOSPHERE study
Physical frailty and sarcopenia (PF&S) is a prototypical geriatric condition characterized by reduced physical function and low muscle mass. The aim of the present study was to provide an initial selection of ...
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Dopaminergic nigrostriatal denervation and widespread intracellular α-synuclein accumulation are neuropathologic hallmarks of Parkinson’s disease (PD). A constellation of peripheral processes, including metabo...
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Thirst in patients on chronic hemodialysis: What do we know so far?
Thirst has been defined as “the sensation that leads animal’s and human’s actions toward the goal of finding and drinking water” or as “any drive that can motivate water intake, regardless of cause”. Thirst, t...
