Effects of physical activity and body composition on functional limitation in the elderly: Application of the marginal structural model

Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 479-493

  Tager, Ira B ^a   Haight, Thaddeus ^a   Sternfeld, Barbara ^b   Yu, Zhuo ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LEISURE; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; IMPEDANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TIME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; CALIFORNIA; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4344597295     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000128401.55545.c6     Document Type: Article

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