Gender and age differences in plasma carnitine, muscle strength and exercise tolerance in haemodialysis patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1808-1813

  Constantin Teodosiu, Dumitru ^a   Young, Stephanie ^a   Wellock, Fiona ^a   Short, Anthony H ^a   Burden, Richard P ^b   Morgan, Anthony G ^b   Greenhaff, Paul L ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carnitine; Fatigue; Haemodialysis; Renal insufficiency; Sex

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCARNITINE; ALBUMIN; CARNITINE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HAND GRIP; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; WALKING;

EID: 0036797514     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.10.1808     Document Type: Article

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