Development of soft tissue asymmetry indicators to characterize aging and functional mobility
Carlo Ricciardi, Alfonso Maria Ponsiglione, Marco Recenti, Francesco Amato, Magnus Kjartan Gislason, Milan Chang, Paolo Gargiulo · 2023
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Description
Carlo Ricciardi and co-authors build indicators of left-right asymmetry in body tissues from CT scans of older adults, and relate them to aging and mobility. Muscle quality matters for function, but how imbalance between sides across muscle, fat, and connective tissue behaves was understudied. Their data cover thousands of community-dwelling elders.
Asymmetry grew with age, with muscle and connective tissue width showing the clearest shifts. Body weight class and walking task also shaped the measures. On a fast walking test, asymmetry separated slow from normal walkers well, while a normal walk and a stand-and-go test did not. The authors propose these indicators for clinical assessment and tailored support of healthy aging.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Carlo Ricciardi, Alfonso Maria Ponsiglione, Marco Recenti, Francesco Amato, Magnus Kjartan Gislason, Milan Chang, Paolo Gargiulo |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |