Acute creatine loading increases fat-free mass, but does not affect blood pressure, plasma creatinine, or CK activity in men and women

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 291-296

  Mihic, Sasa ^a   MacDonald, Jay R ^a   McKenzie, Scott ^a   Tarnopolsky, Mark A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creatinine; Ergogenic aid; Nutritional supplement; Renal function; Side effects

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIA; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033952218     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-200002000-00007     Document Type: Article

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