Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on health parameters and muscle strength of older women: A longitudinal study.

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by Research Support and Promotion Measures Plan of the Vice-Rectorate for Research of the Catholic 10.13039/501100004687University of Murcia 2020/2021 grant number PMAFI-COVID19/17; and by Spanish 10.13039/100014440Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Colaboration-Retos 2017 Project grant number RTC-2017-6145-1, 2017."

"This study is a part of the ongoing project (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04958499). Pre-test measurements were taken to begin the intervention specified in this clinical trial. However, this intervention could not be carried out due to COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the present research was conducted, for which external funding was obtained, with additional permission provided by the institutional ethics committee for it to be carried out. This longitudinal study design followed the Strobe Statement ."