Comparison of performance-based measures among native Japanese, Japanese-Americans in Hawaii and Caucasian women in the United States, ages 65 years and over: A cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-7

  Aoyagi, Kiyoshi ^a   Ross, Philip D ^b   Nevitt, Michael C ^c   Davis, James W ^d   Wasnich, Richard D ^d   Hayashi, Takuo ^e   Takemoto, Tai Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Hawaii Osteoporosis Center   (United States)

^e Mitsugi Public General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

EID: 3042760378     PISSN: 14712318     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-1-3     Document Type: Article

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