Ethnic and age-related fat free mass loss in older Americans: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Obisesan, Thomas O ^a   Aliyu, Muktar H ^b   Bond, Vernon ^c   Adams, Richard G ^a   Akomolafe, Abimbola ^d   Rotimi, Charles N ^e  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY DENSITY; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SKINFOLD; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; NUTRITION SURVEYS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21544453294     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-41     Document Type: Article

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