ELDERLY MEXICANS HAVE LESS MUSCLE AND GREATER TOTAL AND TRUNCAL FAT COMPARED TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND CAUCASIANS WITH THE SAME BMI

BACKGROUND: How body composition, specifically skeletal muscle mass, compares in Mexican elderly to other ethnic groups has not previously been reported. We tested the hypothesis that older adults from Northwest Mexico (Mex) would have similar total appendicular skeletal muscle (TASM) compared with...

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Autores principales: ALEMAN-MATEO, H., LEE, S.Y., JAVED, F., THORNTON, J., HEYMSFIELD, S.B., PIERSON, R.N., PI-SUNYER, F.X., WANG, Z.M., WANG, J., GALLAGHER, D.
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819676/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19924354
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