Exercise Training and Nutritional Supplementation for Physical Frailty in Very Elderly People
- 23 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (25), 1769-1775
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199406233302501
Abstract
Although disuse of skeletal muscle and undernutrition are often cited as potentially reversible causes of frailty in elderly people, the efficacy of interventions targeted specifically at these deficits has not been carefully studied.Keywords
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