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Possibility of leg muscle hypertrophy by ambulation in older adults: a brief review

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Interventions in Aging, March 2013
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Title
Possibility of leg muscle hypertrophy by ambulation in older adults: a brief review
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Clinical Interventions in Aging, March 2013
DOI 10.2147/cia.s43837
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Takashi Abe, Ozaki, Loenneke, Thiebaud, Stager, Stager

Abstract

It is known that ambulatory exercises such as brisk walking and jogging are potent stimuli for improving aerobic capacity, but it is less understood whether ambulatory exercise can increase leg muscle size and function. The purpose of this brief review is to discuss whether or not ambulatory exercise elicits leg muscle hypertrophy in older adults. Daily ambulatory activity with moderate (>3 metabolic equivalents [METs], which is defined as the ratio of the work metabolic rate to the resting metabolic rate) intensity estimated by accelerometer is positively correlated with lower body muscle size and function in older adults. Although there is conflicting data on the effects of short-term training, it is possible that relatively long periods of walking, jogging, or intermittent running for over half a year can increase leg muscle size among older adults. In addition, slow-walk training with a combination of leg muscle blood flow restriction elicits muscle hypertrophy only in the blood flow restricted leg muscles. Competitive marathon running and regular high intensity distance running in young and middle-aged adults may not produce leg muscle hypertrophy due to insufficient recovery from the damaging running bout, although there have been no studies that have investigated the effects of running on leg muscle morphology in older subjects. It is clear that skeletal muscle hypertrophy can occur independently of exercise mode and load.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Unknown 161 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 16%
Student > Bachelor 23 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 8%
Professor 9 5%
Other 31 19%
Unknown 45 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 49 30%
Medicine and Dentistry 29 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 4%
Social Sciences 6 4%
Other 11 7%
Unknown 51 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 February 2014.
All research outputs
#6,848,228
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#631
of 1,968 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#54,137
of 206,327 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#8
of 33 outputs
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