Functional impact of relative versus absolute sarcopenia in healthy older women

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1712-1719

  Estrada, Marcos ^a   Kleppinger, Alison ^a   Judge, James O ^a   Walsh, Stephen J ^a   Kuchel, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Frailty; Mobility; Obesity; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GAIT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SENESCENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDING; TREADMILL; VARIANCE; WALKING;

AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PHYSICAL FITNESS;

EID: 35748975400     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01436.x     Document Type: Article

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