Strength and muscle quality in a well-functioning cohort of older adults: The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-330

  Newman, Anne B ^a   Haggerty, Catherine L ^a   Goodpaster, Bret ^a   Harris, Tamara ^b   Kritchevsky, Steve ^c   Nevitt, Michael ^d   Miles, Toni P ^e   Visser, Marjolein ^f  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Muscle quality; Sarcopenia; Strength

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; KNEE FUNCTION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LOWER LEG; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037345998     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51105.x     Document Type: Article

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