Community-dwelling female fallers have lower muscle density in their lower legs than non-fallers: Evidence from the Saskatoon Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) cohort

Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 113-120

  Frank, A W ^a   Farthing, J P ^a   Chilibeck, P D ^a   Arnold, C M ^b   Olszynski, W P ^b,c   Kontulainen, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c Saskatoon Osteoporosis Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

muscle adiposity; muscle attenuation; myosteatosis; postmenopausal women; pQCT

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 84923175037     PISSN: 12797707     EISSN: 17604788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12603-014-0476-6     Document Type: Article

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