Relationships between physical performance measures, age, height and body weight in healthy adults

Age and Ageing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 235-242

  Samson, Monique M ^a   Meeuwsen, Ingrid B A E ^a   Crowe, Alan ^a   Dessens, Jos A G ^b   Duursma, Sijmen A ^a   Verhaar, Harald J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age; Height; Physical performance; Weight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0034066312     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/29.3.235     Document Type: Article

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