Ageing and older people

Exercise Physiology in Special Populations

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 161-223

  Skelton, Dawn A ^a,b   Dinan Young, Susann M ^c,d  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-10343-8.00006-8     Document Type: Chapter

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