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Muscle profile and cognition in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia.

Yeonsil MoonYe-Ji ChoiJin Ok KimSeol-Heui Han
Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2018)
In patients with AD dementia, abundant muscle mass did not mean strong power. The simple lower-extremity muscle strength assessment is more effective in predicting cognition than a muscle mass measure in male patients.
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