Lower extremity nerve function, calf skeletal muscle characteristics, and functional performance in peripheral arterial disease

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1855-1863

  Garg, Parveen K ^a   Liu, Kiang ^b   Ferrucci, Luigi ^d   Guralnik, Jack M ^e   Criqui, Michael H ^f   Tian, Lu ^g   Sufit, Robert ^c   Nishida, Takashi ^c   Tao, Huimin ^b   Liao, Yihua ^b   McDermott, Mary M ^a,b  

^a Departments of Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Preventive Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

claudication; muscles; peripheral nervous system; peripheral vascular disease; physical functioning

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PERONEUS NERVE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERONEAL NERVE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 80054814933     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03600.x     Document Type: Article

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