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ArticleNutrients2022

The Association of Circulating Amino Acids and Dietary Inflammatory Potential with Muscle Health in Chinese Community-Dwelling Older People.

Yi Su, Amany Elshorbagy, Cheryl Turner, Helga Refsum, Timothy Kwok

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Article in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. What Is 'Muscle Health'? A Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025
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  9. Nutrient Metabolites Associated With Low D3Cr Muscle Mass, Strength, and Physical Performance in Older Men.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Yi SuKey Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410013, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9107-3082
Amany ElshorbagyDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Alexandria 21526, Egypt.
Cheryl TurnerDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK.
Helga RefsumInstitute of Basic Medical Sciences, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway.
Timothy KwokDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.
University of Oxford · GBChinese University of Hong Kong · HKHunan Normal University · CNUniversity of Oslo · NO

Funding

Osteoporotic fractures in Chinese men: MrOs Hong KongR01AR049439 · NIAMS · CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG · PI LEUNG, PING CHUNG · 2003 to 2007
$2.0M
National Natural Science Foundation of China 82003541NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR049439NIH HHS AR049439-01A1Research Grants Council Earmarked grant CUHK4101/02 M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amino acids (AAs) and dietary inflammatory potential play essential roles in muscle health. We examined the associations of dietary inflammatory index (DII) of habitual diet with serum AA profile, and ascertained if the associations between DII and muscle outcomes were mediated by serum AAs, in 2994 older Chinese community-dwelling men and women (mean age 72 years) in Hong Kong. Higher serum branched chain AAs (BCAAs), aromatic AAs and total glutathione (tGSH) were generally associated with better muscle status at baseline. A more pro-inflammatory diet, correlating with higher serum total homocysteine and cystathionine, was directly (90.2%) and indirectly (9.8%) through lower tGSH associated with 4-year decline in hand grip strength in men. Higher tGSH was associated with favorable 4-year changes in hand grip strength, gait speed and time needed for 5-time chair stands in men and 4-year change in muscle mass in women. Higher leucine and isoleucine were associated with decreased risk of sarcopenia in men; the associations were abolished after adjustment for BMI. In older men, perturbations in serum sulfur AAs metabolism may be biomarkers of DII related adverse muscle status, while the lower risk of sarcopenia with higher BCAAs may partly be due to preserved BMI.

Indexed as

SarcopeniaAgedAmino AcidsChinaDietFemaleHand StrengthHumansIndependent LivingMaleMusclesAmino Acidsagingamino acidsdietary inflammatory potentialmuscle

Identifiers

PMID35745201
PMCPMC9229609
OpenAlexW4282981518

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