Male ironman triathletes lose skeletal muscle mass

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-97

  Knechtle, Beat ^a,b   Baumann, Barbara ^a   Wirth, Andrea ^a   Knechtle, Patrizia ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^b  

^a Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body fat; Body mass; Dehydration; Triathlon; Ultra endurance

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; UREA;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; CAUCASIAN; CHEMISTRY; ENDURANCE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA VOLUME; RELATIVE DENSITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT; URINE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETES; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PLASMA VOLUME; SODIUM; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; SPORTS; UREA; URINE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77952304735     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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