Sarcopenia as the Biological Substrate of Physical Frailty

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 367-374

  Landi, Francesco ^a   Calvani, Riccardo ^a   Cesari, Matteo ^b   Tosato, Matteo ^a   Martone, Anna Maria ^a   Bernabei, Roberto ^a   Onder, Graziano ^a   Marzetti, Emanuele ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Disability; Operationalization; Physical performance; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISEASE; REVIEW; SARCOPENIA; AGED; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84938737850     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: 18798853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2015.04.005     Document Type: Review

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