Frailty and Sarcopenia : : Onset, Development and Clinical Challenges / / edited by Yannis Dionyssiotis.

Frailty is considered a multisystem impairment that makes an individual vulnerable to external or internal stressors. Sarcopenia, the age-dependent loss of muscle mass and function, is proposed as the biological substrate and the pathway whereby the consequences of physical frailty develop. These sy...

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Place / Publishing House:Rijeka : : IntechOpen,, 2017.
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) :; illustrations
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