Longitudinal relationships of circulating reproductive hormone with functional disability, muscle mass, and strength in community-dwelling older men: The concord health and ageing in men project

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3310-3318

  Hsu, Benjumin ^a,b   Cumming, Robert G ^a,b   Naganathan, Vasi ^b   Blyth, Fiona M ^b   Le Couteur, David G ^b   Seibel, Markus J ^b   Waite, Louise M ^b   Handelsman, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; AGED; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRIP STRENGTH; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LEG MUSCLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RATING SCALE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; AGING; BLOOD; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84907202363     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-1124     Document Type: Article

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