Association between sarcopenia and mortality in healthy older people

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-92

  Bunout, Daniel ^a   de la Maza, María P ^a   Barrera, Gladys ^a   Leiva, Laura ^a   Hirsch, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Fat mass; Fat free mass; Mortality; Older people; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURVIVAL; TIME;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SARCOPENIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959270678     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2010.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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