Development and validation of the Physical Capacity Score (PiC) to overcome the lack of correlation among traditional physical tests in detecting age-related decline

• Gennaro Boccia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gennaro Boccia, Paolo Riccardo Brustio

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Neuromuscular Function Research Group, School of Exercise & Sport Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8706-4098

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• Paolo Riccardo Brustio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gennaro Boccia, Paolo Riccardo Brustio

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Neuromuscular Function Research Group, School of Exercise & Sport Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

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• Anna Mulasso ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anna.mulasso@unito.it

  Affiliations Neuromuscular Function Research Group, School of Exercise & Sport Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9092-2994

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• Francesco Tufo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Neuromuscular Function Research Group, School of Exercise & Sport Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

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• Alberto Rainoldi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Neuromuscular Function Research Group, School of Exercise & Sport Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

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