Joint association of obesity and metabolic syndrome with incident mobility limitation in older men and women-results from the health, aging, and body composition study

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 84-92

  Stenholm, Sari ^a,b   Koster, Annemarie ^a   Alley, Dawn E ^c   Houston, Denise K ^d   Kanaya, Alka ^e   Lee, Jung Sun ^f   Newman, Anne B ^g   Satterfield, Suzanne ^h   Simonsick, Eleanor M ^a   Visser, Marjolein ⁱ   Harris, Tamara B ^a   Ferrucci, Luigi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Metabolic syndrome; Mobility limitation; Obesity; Older people

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74049104386     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glp150     Document Type: Article

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