Declining muscle function in older people - repairing the deficits with exercise

Optimizing Exercise and Physical Activity in Older People

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 158-186

  Taaffe, Dennis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7506-5479-1.50011-X     Document Type: Chapter

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