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. 2021 Apr 26;21:276. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02212-y

Table 2.

Comparison of muscle strength and lean mass between HUR and conventional gym training by gender at baseline (n = 80)

HUR Men (n = 20) Conventional Men (n = 7) P-value for difference HUR Women (n = 37) Conventional Women (n = 16) P-value for difference
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