Reexamining the sarcopenia hypothesis. Muscle mass versus muscle strength

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 904, Issue , 2000, Pages 456-461

  Visser, M ^a,b   Newman, A B ^c   Nevitt, M C ^d   Kritchevsky, S B ^e   Stamm, E B ^f   Goodpaster, B H ^c   Harris, T B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; DYNAMOMETRY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; TORQUE;

EID: 0034122574     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06500.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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