The thickness of the adductor pollicis muscle reflects the muscle compartment and may be as a new anthropometric parameter for nutritional assessment

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 293-301

  Lameu, Edson Braga ^a,c   Gerude, Mauricio Freitas ^a   Campos, Antonio Carlos ^b   Luiz, Ronir Raggio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adductor pollicis muscle; Anthropometry; Nutritional assessment

Indexed keywords

ADDUCTOR POLLICIS MUSCLE; ANTHROPOMETRY; APATHY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HAND GRIP; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALNUTRITION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; THICKNESS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 4644329558     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075197-200405000-00009     Document Type: Review

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