Upper-Arm Anthropometry: An Alternative Indicator of Nutritional Health to Body Mass Index in Unilateral Lower-Extremity Amputees?

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2031-2033

  Miller, Michelle ^a   Wong, Wing Ki ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Cavenett, Sally ^a   Daniels, Lynne ^a   Crotty, Maria ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disabled persons; Nutritional status; Obesity; Quality of life; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; LEG PROSTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTEES; ARM; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 55749085413     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2008.03.025     Document Type: Article

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