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. 2014 Apr;14(2):183-6.
doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-2-183.

Sarcopenia

Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft  1 , Francesco Landi
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Sarcopenia

Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft et al. Clin Med (Lond). 2014 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: Sarcopenia; exercise; frailty; geriatric syndromes; malnutrition.

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Sarcopenia case-finding algorithm. Reproduced with permission from Cruz-Jentoft et al (2010).
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Sarcopenia and frailty. Reproduced with permission from Cruz-Jentoft (2013).
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