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Strategies targeting muscle mass and function losses within an ICU setting are essential to improve patient-related outcomes.
Practitioners should implement strategies to maintain muscle mass in ICU patients.
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Thus, strategies targeting muscle mass and function losses within an ICU setting are essential to improve patient-related outcomes.
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Muscle Mass Loss in the Older Critically Ill Population: Potential Therapeutic Strategies
James McKendry et al. · Nutrition in Clinical Practice · 2020
DOI 10.1002/ncp.10540
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