TY - JOUR T1 - Sarcopenia: hand grip dynamometers, the latest addition to the doctor’s bag JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 279 LP - 280 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X709997 VL - 70 IS - 695 AU - Irfan Ahmed Y1 - 2020/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/695/279.2.abstract N2 - The debate article highlights the importance of identifying sarcopenia, and the impact it has on reducing ‘physical performance’.1 It is also worth identifying that skeletal muscle is a ‘metabolic organ’, and that many of the associated adverse health outcomes may be potentiated by an endocrine mechanism. In order to screen for this, we propose the use of … ER -