Results of a community-based weight-bearing resistance training programme for healthy Chilean elderly subjects [4]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-83

  Bunout, Daniel ^a,b   Barrera, Gladys ^b   Avendaño, Marcelo ^b   De la Maza, Pia ^b   Gattas, Vivien ^b   Leiva, Laura ^b   Hirsch, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BODY MASS; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND GRIP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 12144260824     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afi005     Document Type: Letter

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