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| Title |
Association between ultrasound measurements of muscle thickness, pennation angle, echogenicity and skeletal muscle strength in the elderly
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| Published in |
GeroScience, March 2013
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11357-013-9517-z |
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| Authors |
Eva Maria Strasser, Thomas Draskovits, Markus Praschak, Michael Quittan, Alexandra Graf |
| Abstract |
The increase of elderly in our society requires simple tools for quantification of sarcopenia in inpatient and outpatient settings. The aim of this study was to compare parameters determined with musculoskeletal ultrasound (M-US) with muscle strength in young and elderly patients. In this prospective, randomised and observer blind study, 26 young (24.2 ± 3.7 years) and 26 old (age 67.8 ± 4.8 years) patients were included. Muscle thickness, pennation angle and echogenicity of all muscles of musculus quadriceps were measured by M-US and correlated with isometric maximum voluntary contraction force (MVC) of musculus quadriceps. Reproducibility of M-US measurements as well as simple and multiple regression models were calculated. Of all measured M-US variables the highest reproducibility was found for measurements of thickness (intraclass correlation coefficients, 85-97%). Simple regression analysis showed a highly significant correlation of thickness measurements of all muscles of musculus quadriceps with MVC in the elderly and in the young. Multiple regression analysis revealed that thickness of musculus vastus medialis had the best correlation with MVC in the elderly. This study showed that measurement of muscle thickness, especially of musculus vastus medialis, by M-US is a reliable, bedside method for monitoring the extent of sarcopenia. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Japan | 2 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 2 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 483 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 70 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 66 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 65 | 13% |
| Researcher | 48 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 28 | 6% |
| Other | 87 | 18% |
| Unknown | 124 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 133 | 27% |
| Sports and Recreations | 66 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 52 | 11% |
| Engineering | 27 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 18 | 4% |
| Other | 45 | 9% |
| Unknown | 147 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July 2020.
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#5,285,297
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Outputs from GeroScience
#621
of 1,595 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,576
of 206,731 outputs
Outputs of similar age from GeroScience
#9
of 20 outputs
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