Tag: sarcopenia

A multi-cohort study found that handgrip strength was associated with disability in the development population but added little reproducible predictive ...

An editorial describes GRASP and smartphone body-composition tools as screening aids for sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity, without claiming demonstrated clinical ...

A retrospective cross-sectional study of 1,948 older adults found that higher red blood cell distribution width-to-albumin ratios were most strongly ...

In a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis, dipyridamole improved persistent muscle loss and dysfunction after joint inflammation subsided, alongside restored ...

Skeletal muscle has long been appreciated as the body's largest organ, essential for movement, metabolism, and overall physiological stability. But ...

Microbial communities shift with age in ways that influence cardiometabolic health, cognition, immunity, and frailty, and BMC Geriatrics has launched ...

A Chinese cross-sectional study of 471 older adults finds that low blood levels of the vessel-growth signals VEGF and ANGPT1 ...

A cell-permeable peptide that activates autophagy improved grip strength, endurance, and balance in aged mice and produced gains comparable to ...

A cross-sectional study of 319 adults aged 60 to 97 finds that lower-limb muscle power declines with age far more ...

Deep proteomics of 2,106 proteins reveals older men mount directionally conserved but magnitude-compressed proteome responses to resistance training.

A new study of 468 community-dwelling older adults finds that probable sarcopenia and depressive symptoms independently increase dysphagia risk while ...

A network meta-analysis of 61 randomized controlled trials reveals that elastic band resistance training is the most effective modality for ...

A new cross-sectional study of 344 older adults links sarcopenia to a higher prevalence of sonographic fatty liver, though adjusted ...

A new review maps how the stress hormone GDF-15 integrates appetite, muscle metabolism, inflammation, and iron homeostasis, positioning it as ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis of seven studies finds that commonly used breathing tests show variable and imperfect accuracy ...

A new study of 202 patients shows automated CT body composition measurements remain highly consistent across filtered back projection, iterative, ...

A new mouse study shows that neonatal overfeeding disrupts gut mucus development and depletes Akkermansia muciniphila, accelerating age-related muscle wasting ...

University of Copenhagen researchers found that declining cardiolipin in mitochondria triggers an ERRγ-driven, ROS-mediated switch that trades muscle power for ...

A prospective study of 230 laryngectomy patients shows that fat mass rebounds within eight weeks after surgery while skeletal muscle ...

New research shows that chronic intracellular calcium overload keeps muscle progenitor cells proliferating through sustained NFATc1 signaling, impairing regeneration, and ...