Muscle mass and strength decline with age, a long-term consequence of accumulating molecular damage and its effects on muscle stem cell populations and neuromuscular junctions, among other mechanisms. Once past an arbitrary line in the sand, this loss is defined as an age-related disease and called sarcopenia, a part of age-related frailty. Here, researchers show that the state of sarcopenia correlates with the presence of age-related cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. This is not surprising: all of these conditions arise from the same underly…
Age-Related Sarcopenia Correlates with Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease
Muscle mass and strength decline with age, a long-term consequence of accumulating molecular damage and its effects on muscle stem cell populations and neuromuscular junctions, among other mechanisms. Once past an arbitrary line in the sand, this loss is defined as an age-related disease and called sarcopenia, a part of age-related frailty. Here, researchers show that the state of sarcopenia correlates with the presence of age-related cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. This is not surprising: all of these conditions arise from the same underly…