Fitness, fatness and survival in elderly populations

Age

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 973-984

  Woo, Jean ^a,b   Yu, Ruby ^a   Yau, Forrest ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Body fat; Body mass index; Fitness; Mortality; Waist hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXERCISE; FAT LEAN MASS RATIO; FEMALE; FITNESS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; WAIST HIP RATIO; WALKING SPEED;

ADIPOSITY; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84880569657     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-012-9398-6     Document Type: Article

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