OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 44287

sarcopenia

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sarcopenia
Gradual loss of skeletal muscle due to aging, immobility, illness, or combinations thereof.
Factors contributing to frailty include sarcopenia and decline in executive function.
Now, let me stop here to make a sort of plea. No decline with age is more dramatic or potentially more functionally significant than the decline in lean body mass. […] Think of the…
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