Associations of homoarginine with bone metabolism and density, muscle strength and mortality: Cross-sectional and prospective data from 506 female nursing home patients

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 377-381

  Pilz, S ^a,b   Meinitzer, A ^a   Tomaschitz, A ^a   Kienreich, K ^a   Dobnig, H ^a   Schwarz, M ^a   Wagner, D ^a   Drechsler, C ^c   Piswanger Solkner C ^a   Marz W ^a,d,e   Fahrleitner Pammer, A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d SYNLAB ACADEMY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AGAT; Amino acids; Arginine; GATM; Homoarginine; Prospective

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL TELOPEPTIDE; CREATININE; HOMOARGININE; OSTEOCALCIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; CALCANEUS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; KNEE EXTENSOR MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOMOARGININE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NURSING HOMES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84867578746     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-012-1950-9     Document Type: Article

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