Study Question Eight

• What are the effects of aging on muscle? How does muscle affect bone aging?


  Older folk commonly experience atrophy on their muscles, which is caused by inactivity and results in decreased muscle mass.
• What are the effects of aging on muscle? How does muscle affect bone aging?

  Myofilaments are lost, which cause the muscle fibers to become smaller.
• What are the effects of aging on muscle? How does muscle affect bone aging?

  Because of these changes in muscle, they exert less force onto bones, resulting in a decrease in bone density.
• Older folk commonly experience atrophy on their muscles, which is caused by inactivity and results in decreased muscle mass. Myofilaments are lost, which cause the muscle fibers to become smaller. Because of these changes in muscle, they exert less force onto bones, resulting in a decrease in bone density.