Weight-loss therapy improves endurance capacity in obese older adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1157-1159

  Shah, Krupa ^a   Wingkun, Neil Jeremy G ^a   Lambert, Charles P ^a   Villareal, Dennis T ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIET THERAPY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OBESITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PILOT PROJECTS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 44649128608     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01699.x     Document Type: Letter

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