Although our AIMSS team couldn’t attend in person this year, we have 4 oral presentations ICFSRcongress, 2 of them by medical students. frailty-sarcopenia.com/program.php #osteosarcopenia #tryptophan #fat #muscle #kynurenine

Associations between leukocyte #telomere length and #osteosarcopenia in 20,400 adults aged 60 years and over: Data from the UK Biobank. A great collaboration between UConn Aging & Pepper Center AIMSS & UniMelb MDHS: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

50 days free access to our latest work. “Associations between leukocyte telomere length and osteosarcopenia in 20,400 adults aged 60 years and over: Data from the UK Biobank” Gustavo Duque UConn Aging & Pepper Center UniMelb MDHS AIMSS authors.elsevier.com/c/1e-HwV6zM9DO…

Interested in clinical #research? Would you like to join our great team AIMSS? We have two positions available: - Clinical Research Manager: westernhealth.mercury.com.au/ViewPosition.a… - Administrative Assistant: westernhealth.mercury.com.au/ViewPosition.a…

Effects of 3 months of multi-nutrient supplementation on the immune system and #muscle and respiratory function of older adults in #agedcare (The Pomerium Study): protocol for a randomised controlled trial BMJ_Open bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/5/e… #MRFF-funded, conducted AIMSS

Check our recent RCT protocol paper “Effects of 3 months of multi-nutrient supplementation on the immune system and muscle and respiratory function of older adults in aged care (The Pomerium Study)⁦AIMSS⁩ ⁦#muscle #immune #MRFF bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/5/e…

Please mark in your calendars for the 8th Asian Conference for Frailty and Sarcopenia: congre.co.jp/acfs-8/ ANZSSFR ICFSRcongress ANZSGM ANZBMS Hidenori Arai AIMSS

Progressive Resistance Training for Concomitant Increases in #Muscle Strength and Bone Mineral Density in #OlderAdults: link.springer.com/article/10.100… AIMSS

Protocol for an MRFF funded RCT ongoing AIMSS bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/5/e…

Our next AIMSS Seminar is tomorrow Tuesday 7 June at 11 AM AET. Prof Naji Abumrad on “An attempt at treating #sarcopenia. Lessons from the patient to the lab, and back to clinical use.” All invited! To register: unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regist… ANZSSFR ANZBMS ANZSGM

From Institute for Health and Sport, VU & AIMSS: Progressive #ResistanceTraining for Concomitant Increases in #Muscle Strength and #Bone Mineral Density in #OlderAdults: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Low #osteocalin ⬆️ T2D risk. High osteocalcin ⬆️ all-cause mortality risk, our paper #JBMR pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35689459/ ANZBMS Institute for Health and Sport, VU AIMSS UWA Is it possible that osteocalin Fx is according to the #GoldilocksPrinciple? If so, what is the ‘just right’ level?

A free copy of our paper "The Impact of the #COVID19 Pandemic on #physicalactivity , Function, and #QualityofLife" is available here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Catherine Said (she/her) Dr Frances Batchelor AIMSS NARI Western Health Library

My last report as Director AIMSS

The new World #Guidelines for #Falls Prevention and Management for #OlderAdults have been released. It was a pleasure being part of the Steering Committee of this important initiative: bgs.org.uk/resources/worl… Research Institute of the MUHC (The Institute) McGill_DOM AIMSS

World Guidelines for Falls Prevention and Management for Older Adults: A Global Initiative | British Geriatrics Society ⁦AIMSS⁩ and ⁦UniMelb MDHS⁩ members are part of this initiative ⁦Catherine Said (she/her)⁩ ⁦Gustavo Duque⁩ bgs.org.uk/resources/worl…

AIMSS is happy to contribute

Interested in clinical research? Would you like to join our great team AIMSS?    We have a Research Assistant position available. For more information please visit,  seek.com.au/job/58682587?t…   #WesternHealth #UoM #UniversityofMelbourne #AIMSSResearch

Our latest ⁦paper ⁦UniMelb MDHS⁩. Thanks to all authors & collaborators. ⁩⁦ Relationship Between Plasma Homocysteine and Bone Density, Lean Mass, Muscle Strength and Physical Function in 1480 Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Data from NHANES link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Mahdi Imani