Among elite football players, atrophy may persist in the quadriceps and gastrocnemius muscles 2 years after ACL surgery. Results highlight the importance of isolated muscle strengthening after ACL ...

Late-stage trial data for Roche’s drug against muscle-wasting Elevidys showed positive results after two years of treatment for male patients aged 4 or older with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

When the nerves are damaged, communication between the nerves and muscles becomes disrupted. This results in significant muscle weakness, atrophy, and loss of function. The majority of neuromuscular ...

and congestive heart failure can be accompanied by muscle atrophy. 4 Men have more muscle mass, in general, than women, and males have a notably higher reference range for total red blood cell count, ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare hereditary neuromuscular disorder in which the spinal cord does not form normally. This inhibits voluntary muscle action, leading to a gradual decrease in ...

Background Fatty atrophy is a combination of reduced muscle size and the replacement of muscle tissue with fat seen in patients with chronic neuromuscular diseases (NMD). Accurate quantification of ...

Light to moderate alcohol drinking can raise HDL, but heavy drinking can increase total cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides. This raises the chance of developing cardiovascular disease.

Heavy drinking leads to increased neuronal atrophy and reduces white matter fiber integrity (Daviet et al., 2022), associated with increased risk for dependence, anxiety, depression, cognitive ...

and those changes influence how alcohol affects us. A 2023 study posits that as we get older, there is a decrease in lean muscle and an increase in body fat, resulting in less water in the body.