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Correlation between Muscle Strength and Muscle Mass, and Their Association with Walking Speed, in Community-Dwelling Elderly Japanese Individuals

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess the correlation between muscle strength and muscle mass based on sex and age, and their association with walking speed, which is a health predictor for independent living, in elderly Japanese individuals. METHODS: The participants included 318 (111 men, 207 women) comm...

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Autores principales: Hayashida, Itsushi, Tanimoto, Yoshimi, Takahashi, Yuka, Kusabiraki, Toshiyuki, Tamaki, Junko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4218822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25365291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111810