Share on Pinterest New research links age-related muscle loss to heightened dementia risk. Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images Sarcopenia describes the muscle loss that often occurs in older age.

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Dr Aaron Holley argues that skeletal muscle — not just heart and lungs — is a key, often missed driver of activity intolerance, and may hold the answer to unexplained dyspnea.

In 2016, sarcopenia was recognized as a disease and given an ICD-10-CM code (M62.84). 3,4 However, the originating causes of sarcopenia are largely unknown and have no clinical treatments at present, ...