Weight change and the conservation of lean mass in old age: The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 872-878

  Newman, Anne B ^a,h   Lee, Jung Sun ^a   Visser, Marjolein ^b,c   Goodpaster, Bret H ^a   Kritchevsky, Stephen B ^d   Tylavsky, Frances A ^e   Nevitt, Michael ^f   Harris, Tamara B ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Demography and Biometry   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Body composition; Older adults; Sarcopenia; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIODENSITOMETRY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 27744529217     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/82.4.872     Document Type: Article

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