Selecting the best anthropometric variables to characterize a population of healthy elderly persons;Selección de las variables antropométricas más adecuadas para caracterizar una población de personas mayores sanas

Nutricion Hospitalaria

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 384-391

  Tesedo Nieto, J ^a   Barrado Esteban, E ^b   Velasco Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Healthy elderly; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 79955532665     PISSN: 02121611     EISSN: 16995198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3305/nh.2011.26.2.4665     Document Type: Article

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