Observational studyBMC musculoskeletal disorders2020
Lower-limb muscle strength: normative data from an observational population-based study.
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- Development of a Modifiable Fall Risk Score for evaluating changes in fall risk over time.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2025Article
- Intra-tester and inter-tester reliability of maximum isokinetic hip and knee strength measurements with the exoskeleton in healthy young adults.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Physical performance metrics of police officers in northeastern Mexico according to age groups and sex.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- Lower extremity muscle activity during reactive balance differs between adults with chronic traumatic brain injury and controls.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Impaired lower limb muscle mass, quality and function in end stage liver disease: A cross-sectional study.Experimental physiology · 2023Article
- Sit to stand muscle power reference values and their association with adverse events in Colombian older adults.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- How Well Do Low Population-Specific Values for Muscle Parameters Associate with Indices of Poor Physical Health? Cross-Sectional Data from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The Predictability of Frailty Associated with Musculoskeletal Deficits: A Longitudinal Study.Calcified tissue international · 2021Article
- Isometric Strength Database for Muscle Maximal Voluntary Endurance Field Tests: Normative Data.Sports medicine - open · 2021Article
- Postural balance and fall risk in patients with systemic sclerosis: A cross-sectional study.Archives of rheumatology · 2021Article
- Are Sarcopenia and Cognitive Dysfunction Comorbid after Stroke in the Context of Brain-Muscle Crosstalk?Biomedicines · 2021Review
- Prevalence of Sarcopenia Employing Population-Specific Cut-Points: Cross-Sectional Data from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study, Australia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Dynapenia and Low Cognition: A Cross-Sectional Association in Postmenopausal Women.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Muscle strength and gait speed rather than lean mass are better indicators for poor cognitive function in older men.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe extent of muscle deterioration associated with ageing or disease can be quantified by comparison with appropriate reference data. The objective of this study is to present normative data for lower-limb muscle strength and quality for 573 males and 923 females aged 20-97 yr participating in the Geelong Osteoporosis Study in southeastern Australia.
methodsIn this cross-sectional study, measures of muscle strength for hip flexors and hip abductors were obtained using a Nicholas manual muscle tester, a hand-held dynamometer (HHD; kg). Leg lean mass was measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA; kg), and muscle quality calculated as strength/mass (N/kg).
resultsFor both sexes, muscle strength and quality decreased with advancing age. Age explained 12.9-25.3% of the variance in muscle strength in males, and 20.8-24.6% in females; age explained less of the variance in muscle quality. Means and standard deviations for muscle strength and quality for each muscle group are reported by age-decade for each sex, and cutpoints equivalent to T-scores of - 2.0 and - 1.0 were derived using data from young males (n = 89) and females (n = 148) aged 20-39 years.
conclusionsThese data will be useful for quantifying the extent of dynapenia and poor muscle quality among adults in the general population in the face of frailty, sarcopenia and other age-related muscle dysfunction.
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