Comment on Comparison of three BIA muscle indices for sarcopenia screening in old adult

European Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 280-

  Safer, U ^a   Tasci, I ^b   Binay Safer, V ^b   Doruk, H ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANALYTIC METHOD; APPENDICLE SKELETAL MUSCLE INDEX; BIOELECTRIC IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE; LETTER; MUSCLE MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPENIA; SCREENING TEST; SKELETAL MUSCLE INDEX; TOTAL SKELETAL MUSCLE INDEX;

EID: 84883873888     PISSN: 18787649     EISSN: 18787657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurger.2013.04.013     Document Type: Letter

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