Body composition in French women 75+ years of age: The EPIDOS study

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 311-316

  Gillette Guyonnet, Sophie ^a,b,c   Nourhashemi, Fati ^a,b   Andrieu, Sandrine ^b   Cantet, Christelle ^b   Albarède, Jean Louis ^a   Vellas, Bruno ^a,b   Grandjean, Hélène ^b  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Serv Univ Psychiat l'Enfant l'A   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Body composition; French elderly women

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BONE MINERAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0037339797     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(02)00198-7     Document Type: Article

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