Tackling Australia's future health problems: Developing strategies to combat sarcopenia - Age-related muscle wasting and weakness

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 294-296

  Lynch, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Anabolic agents; Exercise; Sarcopenia; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; HORMONE;

AGING; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EXERCISE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGING; AUSTRALIA; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 2942532870     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0903.2004.00568.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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