Elderly people with low body weight may have subtle low-grade inflammation

Obesity

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 803-808

  Nakajima, Kei ^a,b   Yamaoka, Hiroko ^a   Morita, Kumiko ^a   Ebata, Midori ^a   Eguchi, Satoko ^a   Muneyuki, Toshitaka ^b   Munakata, Hiromi ^b  

^a JOSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kasukabe Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 63049091439     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.596     Document Type: Article

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