Sarcopenia Is Associated With Incident Disability, Institutionalization, and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Men: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 607-613

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incident disability; Institutionalization; Mortality; Older men; Population study; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; GAIT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND GRIP; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POLYPHARMACY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SARCOPENIA; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING SPEED; DISABLED PERSON; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84931563151     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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