The effects of age, gender, and body mass index on amplitude of sensory nerve action potentials: Multivariate analyses

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1683-1686

  Fujimaki, Yumi ^a,b   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a   Sato, Yasunori ^a   Isose, Sagiri ^a   Shibuya, Kazumoto ^a   Sekiguchi, Yukari ^a   Nasu, Saiko ^a   Noto, Yuichi ^a   Taniguchi, Junko ^a   Misawa, Sonoko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Body mass index; Gender; Sensory nerve action potential

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69549133402     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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