Handgrip Strength and Cause‐Specific and Total Mortality in Older Disabled Women: Exploring the Mechanism
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- 29 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 51 (5), 636-641
- https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0579.2003.00207.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between muscle strength and total and cause-specific mortality and the plausible contributing factors to this association, such as presence of diseases commonly...Keywords
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