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| Title |
Reliability and validity of the ultrasound technique to measure the rectus femoris muscle diameter in older CAD-patients
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Imaging, April 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2342-12-7 |
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| Authors |
Tom Thomaes, Martine Thomis, Steven Onkelinx, Walter Coudyzer, Véronique Cornelissen, Luc Vanhees |
| Abstract |
The increasing age of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients and the occurrence of sarcopenia in the elderly population accompanied by 'fear of moving' and hospitalization in these patients often results in a substantial loss of skeletal muscle mass and muscle strength. Cardiac rehabilitation can improve exercise tolerance and muscle strength in CAD patients but less data describe eventual morphological muscular changes possibly by more difficult access to imaging techniques. Therefore the aim of this study is to assess and quantify the reliability and validity of an easy applicable method, the ultrasound (US) technique, to measure the diameter of rectus femoris muscle in comparison to the muscle dimensions measured with CT scans. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 215 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 207 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 40 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 24 | 11% |
| Researcher | 19 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 17 | 8% |
| Other | 41 | 19% |
| Unknown | 48 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 85 | 40% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 10% |
| Sports and Recreations | 18 | 8% |
| Engineering | 6 | 3% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 16 | 7% |
| Unknown | 63 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 09 April 2012.
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#14,725,504
of 22,664,267 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Imaging
#213
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#99,327
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Imaging
#2
of 7 outputs
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