Exercise training and nutritional supplementation for physical frailty in very elderly people

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 330, Issue 25, 1994, Pages 1769-1775

  Fiatarone, Maria A ^a,b,c,d,e   O'neill, Evelyn F ^a   Ryan, Nancy Doyle ^b   Clements, Karen M ^a   Solares, Guido R ^f   Nelson, Miriam E ^b   Roberts, Susan B ^b   Kehayias, Joseph J ^b   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a,c,d,e   Evans, William J ^b  

^a RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEG EXERCISE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; ENERGY INTAKE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 0028341292     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199406233302501     Document Type: Article

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