Sarcopenia: Alternative Definitions and Associations with Lower Extremity Function

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1602-1609

  Newman, Anne B ^a,g   Kupelian, Varant ^a   Visser, Marjolein ^b   Simonsick, Eleanor ^c   Goodpaster, Bret ^a   Nevitt, Michael ^d   Kritchevsky, Stephen B ^e   Tylavsky, Frances A ^f   Rubin, Susan M ^d   Harris, Tamara B ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Muscle mass; Physical function; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; OBESITY; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PREVALENCE; SMOKING;

AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BODY COMPOSITION; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PENNSYLVANIA; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TENNESSEE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 10744227011     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51534.x     Document Type: Article

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