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December 11, 2017European Journal of Clinical NutritionOpen Access

Percentiles for skeletal muscle index, area and radiation attenuation based on computed tomography imaging in a healthy Caucasian population

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Abstract

This study provides sex specific percentiles for SMA, SMI, and MRA. In addition, age- and BMI specific percentiles have been established.

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Werf et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd4cca7d97b7e86940cb77 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-017-0034-5

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