Muscle Strength

CHICAGO — Use of an in-home therapy desk improved motor skills and balance and reduced sedentarism in adults with Parkinson’s disease, according to data at the International Association of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders World Congress.

Healio compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in February.

Participants who underwent respiratory muscle training for 5 weeks had sustained, improved results after not training for the same amount of time, according to study results published in Experimental Physiology.

DALLAS — In this video from the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting, Alexis K. Nelson spoke about force and muscle activation for external rotation after reverse shoulder arthroplasty in patients with teres minor deficiency.

Exercise capacity, but not muscle strength, during early adulthood may indicate lower risk for carotid plaque development, according to findings published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Reproductive-aged women who had previous gestational diabetes or prediabetes were less likely to meet physical activity goals, particularly muscle strengthening activity, than their peers at lower diabetes risk, according to study data.

Muscle strength and physical performance measures may improve fracture risk prediction for older men and should be incorporated into fracture prediction models, according to study findings.

Vamorolone maintained muscle strength and function, as well as improved height velocity, compared with glucocorticoid therapy among those with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Adults in South Korea with diabetes had a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease and peripheral arterial disease if they had low appendicular skeletal muscle mass and low grip strength, according to study data.

Data suggested that psychedelic use, such as tryptamines, LSD or phenethylamine, may lead to a reduced risk for hypertension. It was the top story in cardiology last week.