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      <dc:title>Relationship between Leg Strength and Balance and Lean Body Mass. Benefits for Active Aging</dc:title>
      <dc:creator>Castillo Rodríguez, Alfonso</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Onetti Onetti, Wanesa</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Mendes, Rui Sousa</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Chinchilla Minguet, José Luis</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>Physical activity</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Health and wellness</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Body composition</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Aging</dc:subject>
      <dc:description>Physical activity (PA) can bring incalculable benefits to people throughout the aging process.&#xd;
The objective of this study was to determine the relationships between the leg and arm strength,&#xd;
body composition and balance of elderly people. Twenty-one people (9 men and 12 women) over&#xd;
60 years of age voluntarily participated in this study. Bioimpedance tests were carried out to obtain&#xd;
body mass data, manual dynamometer tests and the lower limbs test were conducted to obtain&#xd;
strength values, and the stork balance stand test was conducted to assess static balance. As a result,&#xd;
medium-high correlation coefficients were obtained between the aforementioned dependent variables.&#xd;
The highest value corresponded to the relationship between the results of the dominant hand strength&#xd;
test (right hand in all participants) and the lean body mass (LBM) of the participant (R2 = 75%,&#xd;
p &lt; 0.001). The results indicated that strength capacity, recorded by dynamometry, and balance ability&#xd;
have a direct relationship with the body composition of the subject, especially with their lean body&#xd;
mass. These data suggest that a greater lean body mass can provide greater strength and balance in&#xd;
the elderly, so it would improve or have greater duration the functionality and independence of the&#xd;
person, thereby justifying direct benefits in people and indirect benefits in public administrations that&#xd;
finance these social issues.</dc:description>
      <dc:date>2020-05-05T11:49:43Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2020-05-05T11:49:43Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2020-03-18</dc:date>
      <dc:type>journal article</dc:type>
      <dc:identifier>Castillo-Rodríguez, A., Onetti-Onetti, W., Sousa Mendes, R., &amp; Chinchilla-Minguet, J. L. (2020). Relationship between Leg Strength and Balance and Lean Body Mass. Benefits for Active Aging. Sustainability, 12(6), 2380.</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61808</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>10.3390/su12062380</dc:identifier>
      <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
      <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/</dc:rights>
      <dc:rights>open access</dc:rights>
      <dc:rights>Atribución 3.0 España</dc:rights>
      <dc:publisher>MDPI</dc:publisher>
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