Assessment of sarcopenia: Longitudinal versus cross sectional body composition data

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 295-299

  Bunout, Daniel ^a,b   de la Maza, María Pía ^a   Barrera, Gladys ^a   Leiva, Laura ^a   Gattas, Vivien ^a   Hirsch, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Body composition; DEXA; Older people; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 34848840900     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03324705     Document Type: Article

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