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| Relationships between physical performance measures, age, height and body weight in healthy adults | | Author(s) | Monique M Samson, Ingrid B A E Meeuwsen, Alan Crowe |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 29, no 3, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp 235-242 |
| Keywords | Physical capacity ; Performance ; Weight ; Height ; Age groups [elderly] ; Measurement ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | Muscle strength and functional mobility in healthy men and women over the adult age range (20-90) were measured to investigate changes with age and sex, and to establish the effects of height and weight anthropometric indices. Participants in this Dutch study were 74 healthy women (mean age 49) and 81 healthy men (mean age 31.9). Older subjects had lower values for muscle strength and muscle power than young subjects. At about age 55, women showed an acceleration in decline of isometric knee extension and handgrip strength. Men showed more gradual declines over the adult age range, with decreases in knee and handgrip strength of 24% and 19.6% between 20 and 55 years, and 23% and 17.4% between 55 and 80 years. The age-related decline is partly associated with differences in height and body weight. Women had higher correlations between muscle strength and functional mobility tests than men. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000824228 A |
| Classmark | BI: 5H: 4X6: 53H: BB: 3R: 76H |
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