Skeletal muscle strength as a predictor of all-cause mortality in healthy men

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2002, Pages B359-B365

  Metter, E Jeffrey ^a   Talbot, Laura A ^a   Schrager, Matthew ^a,c   Conwit, Robin ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EXERCISE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036786911     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/57.10.B359     Document Type: Article

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