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Muscles and Mortality

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Several of the studies showing a relationship between muscle strength or mass and mortality: 1. Metter, Talbot, Schrager, and Conwit, "Skeletal Muscle Strength as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in Healthy Men," Journals of Gerontology Series A 57 (2002): B359-B365. 2. Newman et al., "Strength, but not Muscle Mass, Is Associated With Mortality in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study Cohort," Journals of Gerontology Series A 61 (2006): 72-77. 3. Wannamethee et al., "Decreased Muscle and Increased Central Adiposity are Independently Related to Mortality in Older Men," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 86 no. 5 (Nov. 2007): 1339-1346. 4. Marquis et al., "Midthigh Muscle Cross-Sectional Area Is a Better Predictor of Mortality than Body Mass Index in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease," American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 166 (2002): 809-13...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).