BACKGROUND & AIMS: Among all muscle function tests, measurement of hand grip
strength has gained attention as a simple, non-invasive marker of muscle strength of upper …

This review focuses on the studies investigating the prognostic implications of disease-
related malnutrition. Malnutrition is a common problem in patients with chronic or severe …

Background Although disuse of skeletal muscle and undernutrition are often cited as
potentially reversible causes of frailty in elderly people, the efficacy of interventions targeted …

Background: Validation studies of height-and weight-based indexes of body fatness in
children and adolescents have examined only small samples of school-age children …

Purpose Undernutrition is often suspected in patients when serum albumin or prealbumin
levels are low. We asked whether these measures are indeed low in undernourished people …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Although maximal voluntary handgrip strength (HGS) is considered
a reliable tool in nutritional assessment there are few reference data available. This paper …

Body composition measurements show that lean body mass (LBM) is related to the
logarithm of body fat over a wide range of body weights in women and adolescent girls …

Low exercise tolerance has a large influence on health status in chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure. In addition to primary organ dysfunction …

Muscle weakness in the elderly is prevalent and morbid, closely linked to the frailty,
functional decline, immobility, falls, and injuries in this population. The marked decrease in …

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