Comparison of ultrasound-measured age-related, site-specific muscle loss between healthy Japanese and German men

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 320-325

  Abe, Takashi ^a   Kawakami, Yasuo ^b   Kondo, Masakatsu ^c   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FITNESS AND SPORTS IN KANOYA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daily physical activity; Muscle distribution; Sarcopenia; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; AGE; AGING; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CAUCASIAN; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXERCISE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE SIZE; MUSCLE THICKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SMOKING HABIT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; TRUNK;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREVALENCE; SARCOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958803320     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2011.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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