Table 2.
HUR Men (n = 20) | Conventional Men (n = 7) | P-value for difference | HUR Women (n = 37) | Conventional Women (n = 16) | P-value for difference | ||
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Muscle strength | HGS (kg) | 34.04 (8.56) | 32.19 (7.19) | 0.588 | 22.49 (5.52) | 22.53 (5.38) | 0.979 |
Lean mass | ALM (kg) | 23.93 (4.15) | 23.84 (4.18) | 0.960 | 16.99 (4.22) | 15.61 (2.25) | 0.128 |
FNIH | ALM/BMI (kg/m2) | 0.86 (0.14) | 0.88 (0.08) | 0.789 | 0.59 (0.10) | 0.60 (0.08) | 0.774 |
EWGSOP2 | ALM/h2 (kg/m2) | 7.96 (0.84) | 7.97 (0.86) | 0.991 | 6.69 (1.47) | 6.15 (0.66) | 0.072 |
HUR Helsinki University Research, HGS hand grip strength, ALM appendicular lean mass, BMI body mass index, FNIH Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Sarcopenia Project, EWGSOP2 European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (January 2019 update). Analyses are independent sample t-tests for normally distributed data and Mann-Whitney tests for non-normally distributed data