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Growth Hormone (GH) injections do not increase muscle strength in sarcopenic patients and are associated with frequent side effects.
Do not use Growth Hormone injections to treat sarcopenia. They do not improve strength and cause side effects. Focus on exercise instead.
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the attempt to treat sarcopenic patients with GH injections did not result in an increased muscle strength but only in frequent side effects
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Source
Sarcopenia: assessment of disease burden and strategies to improve outcomes
Ilaria Liguori et al. · Clinical Interventions in Aging · 2018
DOI 10.2147/cia.s149232
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Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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