Relationship of handgrip strength with anthropometric and body composition variables in prepubertal children

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 225-238

  Jurimae T ^a   Hurbo, T ^b   Jurimae J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b K Krapiva Institute of Arts Ethnography and Folklore   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOREARM; HAND STRENGTH; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PUBERTY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOREARM; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUBERTY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 67349097154     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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