Ethnic and age-related fat free mass loss in older Americans: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)

BACKGROUND: Although age-related loss of fat free mass (FFM) is well known, there is paucity of data on national estimates, and on the differential influence of ethnicity on the decline in FFM with increasing age. We determined whether age-related loss in FFM and fat free mass index (FFMI) vary by g...

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Autores principales: Obisesan, Thomas O, Aliyu, Muktar H, Bond, Vernon, Adams, Richard G, Akomolafe, Abimbola, Rotimi, Charles N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1097739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15840167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-41

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1097739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15840167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-41

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