Patterns of muscle strength loss with age in the general population and patients with a chronic inflammatory state

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 431-436

  Beenakker, Karel G M ^a   Ling, Carolina H ^a   Meskers, Carel G M ^a   de Craen, Anton J M ^a,b   Stijnen, Theo ^a   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a,b   Maier, Andrea B ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Handgrip strength; Inflammation; Meta analysis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

DISEASE DURATION; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX RATIO; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOPENIA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 79952219850     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2010.05.005     Document Type: Review

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