Balancing Weight Loss and Sarcopenia in Elderly Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease

J Am Heart Assoc. 2019 Jul 2;8(13):e013200. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.013200. Epub 2019 Jun 29.

Damianos G Kokkinidis^{1

2}, Ehrin J Armstrong¹, Jay Giri^{3

4

5}

¹ 1 Division of Cardiology Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center and University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora CO.
² 2 Department of Medicine Jacobi Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx NY.
³ 3 Cardiovascular Division Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA.
⁴ 4 Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA.
⁵ 5 Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research Center Cardiovascular Institute University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA.

Abstract

See Article Polonsky et al.

Keywords: Editorials; exercise; obesity; peripheral artery disease.