Association of habitual long-distance running with the thickness of skeletal muscles and subcutaneous fat in the body extremities and trunk in middle-aged men

Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 417-423

  Oguri, K ^a,b   Zhao, L ^a   Du, N ^a   Kato, Y ^a   Miyamoto, K ^a   Hayakawa, M ^a   Kurokawa, J ^a   Nagasaki, S ^a   Matsuoka, T ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Shizuoka Sangyo University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Athletes; Muscle, skeletal, physiology; Running; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRAINING; TRUNK; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RUNNING; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 18044367722     PISSN: 00224707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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