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Nutrition, Muscle & Strength: Paramount for Optimal Health

Program Date: 06 April 2023

Publication Date: 06 April 2023

Continuing Education Credits: Dietitian CPEU 0.75

Course Description

In this course, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, MD, PhD, and Philip J. Atherton, PhD, AFHEA, will explain the new pandemic of sarcopenia and frailty after COVID-19 in the older adult population; review the impact of long COVID on muscle and nutritional outcomes; summarize the new GLIM body composition guidelines; and more.

Course Objectives
  • Explain the new pandemic of sarcopenia and frailty after COVID-19 in the older adult population.
  • Review the impact of long COVID on muscle and nutritional outcomes in older adults.
  • Summarize the new GLIM body composition guidelines.
  • Review new data and expert consensus on protein intake for muscle health.
  • Summarize new evidence on β-Hydroxy-β-Methylbutyrate (HMB) on muscle outcomes.

Performance Indicators: 5.2.1, 5.2.5, 9.1.5

Activity Code: 186308

Course Instructor Bio(s)

Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, MD, PhD

Jefe del Servicio de Geriatría
Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
Madrid, Spain

Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, MD, PhD is a specialist in Geriatric Medicine, Chair of the Geriatric Department at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, Spain, Professor of Geriatrics at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and Chair of the Spanish National Board of Geriatrics. He is a corresponding member of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España and Past President of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS). Dr Cruz-Jentoft serves as the Editor-in-Chief of European Geriatric Medicine, the official journal of the EuGMS. Chair of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) and member of the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing. He represents Spain on the Board of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG). In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of most major geriatric medicine journals.

Philip Atherton, PhD, BSc, AFHEA

Chair of Molecular Medicine
Centre of Metabolism, Ageing & Physiology (CoMAP)
Academic Unit of the IRIS School of Medicine
University of Nottingham
Royal Derby College
Derby, England, UK

Dr Philip J. Atherton is a Professor and Chair of Clinical, Metabolic, and Molecular Physiology at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He received a 1st Class BSc degree and a higher PhD degree (in 2005) from the University of Central Lancashire, focusing on protein metabolism, myogenic signaling, and gene expression regulation in skeletal muscle. His current research involves an expansive combination of detailed pre- and clinical molecular physiology with the application of stable isotope methodologies and the integration of OMIC techniques to discover predictors of the mechanistic basis for, and how to mitigate, musculoskeletal declines in aging and various related diseases.

Prof. Atherton, with a H-index of 57 and ~15,000 citations, has published around 150 peer-reviewed articles and 6 invited book chapters. He is a senior editor for Experimental Physiology, Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, and Nutrients, journals.

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Category
CPEU Adult Muscle mass

Abbott Nutrition’s Statement for Dietitian CPEUs:

This educational activity has been prior-approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR credentialed practitioners will receive the specified continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material.