Table 3.
Correlation between ultrasonographic variables and muscle function tests from CGA.
| Ultrasonographic measurements | Muscle function tests |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gait speed |
TUG |
Handgrip |
Calf circumference |
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| Spearman | p | Spearman | p | Spearman | p | Spearman | p | |
| Total thigh thickness | 0.054 | 0.707 | (−) 0.012 | 0.935 | 0.144 | 0.209 | 0.786 | <0.001 |
| Quadriceps thickness | 0.317 | 0.023 | (−) 0.297 | 0.034 | 0.411 | <0.001 | 0.728 | <0.001 |
| Contractile index | 0.414 | 0.003 | (−) 0.434 | 0.001 | 0.432 | <0.001 | 0.041 | 0.702 |
CGA, comprehensive geriatric assessment; TUG, timed up and go test.