Longitudinal muscle strength changes in older adults: influence of muscle mass, physical activity, and health

VA Hughes, WR Frontera, M Wood… - The Journals of …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… change in muscle strength of the knee and elbow extensors and flexors in older men and …
hypothesize that rates of changes of muscle strength measured longitudinally will be greater …

Resistance exercise for muscular strength in older adults: a meta-analysis

MD Peterson, MR Rhea, A Sen, PM Gordon - Ageing research reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
… A positive effect for each of the strength outcomes was … Strength increases ranged from 9.8
to 31.6kg, and percent … is effective for improving strength among older adults, particularly with …

The loss of skeletal muscle strength, mass, and quality in older adults: the health, aging and body composition study

BH Goodpaster, SW Park, TB Harris… - The Journals of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
muscle strength at baseline and changes in muscle cross-sectional area were independent
correlates of strength … lean mass would indeed help attenuate the strength decline with age. …

The importance of skeletal muscle strength to physical function in older adults

DM Buchner, BJ de Lateur - Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 1991 - academic.oup.com
… given a young and an old adult with the same strength, the older adult is likely to walk slower
and report more physical limitations. Presumably, this result occurs because the older adult

Long-term impact of strength training on muscle strength characteristics in older adults

E Kennis, SM Verschueren, A Bogaerts… - Archives of physical …, 2013 - Elsevier
adults. More specifically, we investigated how muscle strength and muscle power in participants
of a 1-year strength-training intervention relate to the muscle strength characteristics of …

Impact of nutrition on muscle mass, strength, and performance in older adults

A Mithal, JP Bonjour, S Boonen, P Burckhardt… - Osteoporosis …, 2013 - Springer
muscle mass, strength, and performance in older adults, focusing on proteins, vitamin D,
vitamin B 12 , and acid-producing diets. We will discuss whether age-related changes to muscle

Balance, muscle strength, and fear of falling in older adults

SM Binda, EG Culham, B Brouwer - Experimental aging research, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
muscle strength, fear of falling and their inter-relationships in 40 community-dwelling older
adults ( > 65 … Limits of stability, maximal isometric strength, gait speed, and fear of falling were …

[HTML][HTML] … between muscle mass and muscle strength, and the impact of comorbidities: a population-based, cross-sectional study of older adults in the United States

L Chen, DR Nelson, Y Zhao, Z Cui, JA Johnston - BMC geriatrics, 2013 - Springer
… Loss of muscle mass and muscle strength are … muscle mass/strength relationship. The
objectives of this study were to characterize the muscle mass/strength relationship in older adults

The relationship of strength to function in the older adult

NK Fukagawa, M Brown, DR Sinacore… - The Journals of …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… that lower extremity strength is a … the older adult may be inadequate sensation, pain, joint
impairment, poor balance, and fear. It is clear that the role of factors other than muscle strength

Muscle weakness and falls in older adults: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

JD Moreland, JA Richardson… - Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… A decrease in muscle strength with aging has been well documented, 3 and muscle strength
has been found to be modifiable in older adults in a number of randomized controlled trials. …