Prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with functional and nutritional status among male residents in a nursing home in Turkey

Aging Male

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 211-214

  Bahat, Gulistan ^a   Saka, Bulent ^a   Tufan, Fatih ^a   Akin, Sibel ^a   Sivrikaya, Sleyman ^b   Yucel, Nurullah ^b   Erten, Nilgun ^a   Karan, Mehmet A ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

functional status; male; nursing home; prevalence; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SARCOPENIA; TURKEY;

EID: 77955905893     PISSN: 13685538     EISSN: 14730790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13685538.2010.489130     Document Type: Article

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