Poor physical function in elderly women in low-level aged care is related to muscle strength rather than to measures of sarcopenia

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-76

  Woods, Julie L ^a   Iuliano Burns, Sandra ^b   King, Susannah J ^a   Strauss, Boyd J ^a   Walker, Karen Z ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care; Body composition; Muscle strength; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; WALKING SPEED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FITNESS; HIP; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RISK FACTORS; SARCOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051608282     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S16979     Document Type: Article

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