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The age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function: measurement and physiology of muscle fibre atrophy and muscle fibre loss in humans (2018)
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Wilkinson, D. J., Piasecki, M., & Atherton, P. J. (2018). The age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function: measurement and physiology of muscle fibre atrophy and muscle fibre loss in humans. Ageing Research Reviews, 47, 123-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2018.07.005

Age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, sarcopenia, is associated with physical frailty and increased risk of morbidity (chronic diseases), in addition to all-cause mortality. The loss of muscle mass occurs incipiently from middle-age... Read More about The age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function: measurement and physiology of muscle fibre atrophy and muscle fibre loss in humans.

Hip and spine bone mineral density are greater in master sprinters, but not endurance runners compared with non-athletic controls (2018)
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Piasecki, J., McPhee, J., Hannam, K., Deere, K., Elhakeem, A., Piasecki, M., …Ireland, A. (2018). Hip and spine bone mineral density are greater in master sprinters, but not endurance runners compared with non-athletic controls. Archives of Osteoporosis, 13, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-018-0486-9

Summary: We examined bone density in older athletes and controls. Sprinters had greater hip and spine bone density than endurance athletes and controls, whereas values were similar in the latter two groups. These results could not be explained by dif... Read More about Hip and spine bone mineral density are greater in master sprinters, but not endurance runners compared with non-athletic controls.

Handgrip Strength Cannot Be Assumed a Proxy for Overall Muscle Strength (2018)
Journal Article
Yeung, S. S., Reijnierse, E. M., Trappenburg, M. C., Hogrel, J., McPhee, J. S., Piasecki, M., …Maier, A. B. (2018). Handgrip Strength Cannot Be Assumed a Proxy for Overall Muscle Strength. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 19(8), 703-709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2018.04.019

Objectives: Dynapenia, low muscle strength, is predictive for negative health outcomes and is usually expressed as handgrip strength (HGS). Whether HGS can be a proxy for overall muscle strength and whether this depends on age and health status is co... Read More about Handgrip Strength Cannot Be Assumed a Proxy for Overall Muscle Strength.

Failure to expand the motor unit size to compensate for declining motor unit numbers distinguishes sarcopenic from non-sarcopenic older men (2018)
Journal Article
Piasecki, M., Ireland, A., Piasecki, J., Stashuk, D., Swiecicka, A., Rutter, M., …McPhee, J. (2018). Failure to expand the motor unit size to compensate for declining motor unit numbers distinguishes sarcopenic from non-sarcopenic older men. Journal of Physiology, 596(9), https://doi.org/10.1113/JP275520

Sarcopenia results from the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and reduced function in older age. It is likely to be associated with the well‐documented reduction of motor unit numbers innervating limb muscles and the increase in size of surviv... Read More about Failure to expand the motor unit size to compensate for declining motor unit numbers distinguishes sarcopenic from non-sarcopenic older men.