Relationship between site-specific loss of thigh muscle and gait performance in women: The HIREGASAKI study

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Abe, Takashi ^a,d   Ogawa, Madoka ^b   Loenneke, Jeremy P ^c   Thiebaud, Robert S ^c   Loftin, Mark ^a   Mitsukawa, Naotoshi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b Japan Sports Association   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d Toyo Gakuen University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly women; Muscle distribution; Site specific sarcopenia; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRICS; JAPANESE; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE THICKNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THICKNESS; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; SARCOPENIA; THIGH;

EID: 84864911977     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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