RT journal article
T1 Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity by Ultrasonography and Cognitive and Physical Dimensions in Older Adults
A1 Mateos Angulo, Álvaro
A1 Galán Mercant, Alejandro
A1 Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
K1 sarcopenia
K1 muscle ultrasound
K1 muscle quality
K1 physical cognitive performance
AB The purpose of the present study was to investigate the associations between muscle thickness and echo intensity with cognitive and physical dimensions like functional capacity measured in older people. This cross-sectional study involved 20 older adults (15 women and 5 men, mean age +/- SD: 85 +/- 7 years, body mass index: 25 +/- 3 kg/m(2)) from a geriatric centre in Malaga (Spain). Anthropometric measurements, cognitive assessment with Pfeiffer Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire and Motor Memory test, Physical Performance with Short Physical Performance Battery, and muscle strength were tested. Additionally, using B-mode ultrasonography, images of wrist flexors, biceps brachii, rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, medial gastrocnemius, and tibialis anterior were captured, and muscle thickness and echo intensity variables were extracted. An association between muscle parameters assessed by ultrasonography and cognitive and physical dimensions were found in older people. Echo intensity was the best predictor in a set of regression models with different muscle parameters and a battery of cognitive and physical tests in older people. Echo intensity adjusted by handgrip strength could be a low cost and ambulatory index and an indirect and reversible indicator of functional capacity.
PB MDPI
SN 2075-4418
YR 2021
FD 2021-08
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25759
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25759
LA eng
NO This work was partial financial supported by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for Higher Education Programme (Key Action 203) [Grant number: 2018-1-PL01-KA203-051055].
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026