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Response to a letter to the editor from Dr. Timur Ekiz regarding our article “Age-related changes in muscle thickness and echo intensity of trunk muscles in healthy women: comparison of 20–60s age groups’’

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This study (Ota et al. 2020) was supported by a joint research fund from Wacoal Holdings Corporation.

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  1. Department of Preventive Physical Therapy, Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

    Megumi Ota & Hiroshige Tateuchi

  2. Department of Physical Therapy, Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

    Tome Ikezoe, Takehiro Kato & Noriaki Ichihashi

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TH analyzed data. All authors including IT, KT and IN considered the data. OM wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

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Ota, M., Ikezoe, T., Kato, T. et al. Response to a letter to the editor from Dr. Timur Ekiz regarding our article “Age-related changes in muscle thickness and echo intensity of trunk muscles in healthy women: comparison of 20–60s age groups’’. Eur J Appl Physiol 120, 2561–2563 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-020-04470-x

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