Protein and Increased Muscle Mass

• Effects of supplemental protein in older people: an overview of meta-analyses.

  • 2025-11-01
  • Systematic Review
  • Age and ageing 54(12)
  • • Akanu Abass Obasi
    • Adam Lee Gordon
    • Kenneth Smith
    • Kenneth Smith
    • Jemima T Collins
    • Beth E Phillips
    • Abdullah G Alqarni
    • Ying Sun
    • Tahir Masud
    • John R F Gladman

  • PubMed: 41385355
  • DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afaf351

  4 Insights on

  • Increased Muscle Mass

  • High evidence
  • Elderly

  There was medium-certainty evidence of at least small increases in muscle mass and strength in older people with LTCs

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes