Association of Low Lean Mass with Frailty and Physical Performance: A Comparison between Two Operational Definitions of Sarcopenia-Data from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 779-784

  Spira, Dominik ^a   Buchmann, Nikolaus ^a   Nikolov, Jivko ^a   Demuth, Ilja ^a   Steinhagen Thiessen, Elisabeth ^a   Eckardt, Rahel ^a   Norman, Kristina ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frailty; Functional performance; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGED; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOPENIA; VERY ELDERLY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84937575682     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glu246     Document Type: Article

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