Sarcopenia and frailty: A clinician's controversial point of view

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 674-678

  Bauer, J M ^a   Sieber, C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Definition; Diagnosis; Frailty; Pathophysiology; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; GROWTH HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; VITAMIN D;

AGING; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BODY COMPOSITION; BRADYKINESIA; BREAST DISEASE; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; ESOPHAGITIS; EXHAUSTION; FALLING; FATIGUE; FRAILTY; GAIT; GERIATRIC DISORDER; GERONTOLOGIST; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM MEMORY; LUNG DISEASE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PARANOIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM DISEASE; RESTLESSNESS; RISK; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKIN DISEASE; SLEEP DISORDER; STROKE; SYNCOPE; THYROID DISEASE; TREMOR; URINE INCONTINENCE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 46749118347     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2008.03.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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