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Differential association between sarcopenia and metabolic phenotype in Korean young and older adults with and without obesity.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Jan 2017
Hwang You-Cheol, Cho In-Jin, Jeong In-Kyung, Ahn Kyu Jeung, Chung Ho Yeon
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether sarcopenia was associated with metabolic phenotype in subjects with and without obesity. METHODS: A total of 6,021 participants (2,592 men, 3,429 women) aged 30 to 93 years were assessed using data from the 2009 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Sarcopenia was defined as appendicular skeletal muscle mass divided by weight (%) that is <1 SD below the...
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