Associations between changes in abdominal and thigh muscle quantity and quality

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1277-1281

  Kuk, Jennifer L ^a   Church, Timothy S ^b   Blair, Steven N ^c   Ross, Robert ^d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Ectopic fat; Exercise; Intramyocellular lipid

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THIGH;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADIPOSITY; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; THIGH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66149149025     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31816a2463     Document Type: Article

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