Echo intensity is negatively associated with functional capacity in older women

Age

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Rech, Anderson ^a   Radaelli, Regis ^a   Goltz, Fernanda Reistenbach ^b   da Rosa, Luis Henrique Telles ^b   Schneider, Cláudia Dornelles ^b   Pinto, Ronei Silveira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Muscle power; Muscle quality; Muscle strength; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

30 SECOND SIT TO STAND UP TEST; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ECHO INTENSITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE QUALITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE THICKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RATE OF TORQUE DEVELOPMENT; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; USUAL GAIT SPEED TEST; VASTUS INTERMEDIUS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; AGING; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; TORQUE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; TORQUE;

EID: 84906522054     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-014-9708-2     Document Type: Article

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