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Repisalud author Mateos-Angulo, Alvaro author Galán-Mercant, Alejandro author Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio Ignacio authoraffiliation [Mateos-Angulo,A; Cuesta-Vargas,AI] Department of Physiotherapy, IBIMA, University of Málaga, Malaga, Spain. [Galán-Mercant,A] MOVE-IT Research Group and Department of Physical Education, Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, Cádiz University, Cádiz, Spain. [Galán-Mercant,A] Biomedical Research and Innovation Institute of Cádiz (INiBICA) Research Unit, Puerta del Mar University Hospital, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain.[Cuesta-Vargas,AI] School of Clinical Sciences of the Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. 2024-02-19T15:30:39Z 2024-02-19T15:30:39Z 2021-08-13 http://hdl.handle.net/10668/4087 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/18436 34441405 10.3390/diagnostics11081471 2075-4418 Diagnostics The purpose of the present study was to investigate the associations between muscle thickness and echo intensity with cognitive and physical dimensions like functional capacity measured in older people. This cross-sectional study involved 20 older adults (15 women and 5 men, mean age ± SD: 85 ± 7 years, body mass index: 25 ± 3 kg/m2) from a geriatric centre in Malaga (Spain). Anthropometric measurements, cognitive assessment with Pfeiffer Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire and Motor Memory test, Physical Performance with Short Physical Performance Battery, and muscle strength were tested. Additionally, using B-mode ultrasonography, images of wrist flexors, biceps brachii, rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, medial gastrocnemius, and tibialis anterior were captured, and muscle thickness and echo intensity variables were extracted. An association between muscle parameters assessed by ultrasonography and cognitive and physical dimensions were found in older people. Echo intensity was the best predictor in a set of regression models with different muscle parameters and a battery of cognitive and physical tests in older people. Echo intensity adjusted by handgrip strength could be a low cost and ambulatory index and an indirect and reversible indicator of functional capacity. eng Sarcopenia Muscle ultrasound Muscle quality Physical cognitive performance Body mass index Ultrasonography Índice de masa corporal Ultrasonografía Fuerza muscular Muscle Thickness and Echo Intensity by Ultrasonography and Cognitive and Physical Dimensions in Older Adults research article