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17, 18 Goodpaster et al, evaluating muscle quality using CT, showed a reduced attenuation coefficient caused by augmented fat infiltration.
These results reinforce the robustness of the findings obtained including imputed data, with an even more significant association for muscle quality using only measured data.
18 Because the equipment needed to make these measurements is located primarily in research facilities and/or hospitals, it is difficult to determine muscle quality using these techniques in frail, elderly individuals who find it difficult to "get around".
17, 18 Goodpaster et al evaluated muscle quality using CT and concluded that loss of muscle quality due to augmented fat infiltration was associated with lower muscle strength in elderly adults (>65 years) independently of muscle size.
Research groups that have evaluated muscle quality using computer-aided gray scale analysis have explained that the EI is related to the increase in intramuscular adipose tissue and fibrous tissue.
The most novel proposal of this study was that of a method designed specifically to investigate muscle tissue quality using EI frequency analysis.
Therefore, it was suggested that poor muscle quality be used to define persons who are weak but who do not have low muscle mass.
Further, muscle quality was assessed using knee extensor strength divided by leg lean body mass; the assessment of leg muscle mass was not necessarily specific to the quadriceps muscle.
Voluntary maximal force production per unit of muscle mass (muscle quality) has been used to describe the relative contribution of muscle-mass components to the changes in strength throughout the aging process.
20– 29 Fukumoto et al reported that muscle thickness (MT) of the knee extensor and muscle quality assessed from EI measured using this method independently contribute to isometric knee extension strength in middle-aged and elderly women (51 87 years of age).
A recent meta-analysis, nevertheless, concluded that as a result of improved muscle quality rather than muscle hypertrophy, postmenopausal women using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) had ~5% greater muscle strength than those not using HRT (Greising et al., 2009).
