Handgrip strength at midlife and familial longevity: The Leiden Longevity Study

Age

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1261-1268

  Ling, Carolina H Y ^a   De Craen, Anton J M ^a   Eline Slagboom, P ^a   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a   Maier, Andrea B ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Familial longevity; Handgrip strength; Muscle; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTIMIGRAINE AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; HORMONES AND AGENTS ACTING ON THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NOOTROPIC AGENT; OPIATE; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GRIP STRENGTH; HEART INFARCTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LONGEVITY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PROGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SAMPLE; SIBLING; SMOKING; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84867582567     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-011-9295-4     Document Type: Article

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