Relation between mealtime distribution of protein intake and lean mass loss in free-living older adults of the NuAge study123
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Keywords
dietary protein
aging
lean mass
muscle mass
sarcopenia
elderly
nutrition
ABBREVIATIONS
aLM
appendicular lean mass
DXA
dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
IGF-I
insulin-like growth factor I
LM
lean mass
NuAge study
Quebec Longitudinal Study on Nutrition as a Determinant of Successful Aging
PASE
Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly
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Supported by a grant from the Dairy Farmers of Canada, which had no role in the study design, implementation, data analysis, or interpretation. The NuAge study was supported by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (MOP-62842) and the Quebec Network for Research on Aging, a network funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Santé.
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This work was presented in abstract form at Experimental Biology 2016, San Diego, CA, 26 April 2016.
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Supplemental Figure 1 and Supplemental Tables 1–3 are available from the “Online Supporting Material” link in the online posting of the article and from the same link in the online table of contents at http://ajcn.nutrition.org.
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