A population-based study on motor performance and white matter lesions in older women

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 967-970

  Guo, Xinxin ^a   Skoog, Ingmar ^a   Matousek, Michael ^a   Larsson, Lena ^a   Palsson, Sigurdur ^a   Sundh, Walter ^a   Steen, Bertil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Older women; Postural Locomotion Manual test; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; SMOKING; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTURE; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOMEN;

EID: 0033875193     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb06896.x     Document Type: Article

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