Failure to thrive in old age: Follow-up on a workshop

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1997, Pages

  Verdery, Roy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID; CYPROHEPTADINE; HYDRAZINE SULFATE; MEGESTROL ACETATE;

AGED; AGING; ANOREXIA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENERGY BALANCE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0031467849     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/52A.6.M333     Document Type: Short Survey

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