THE RELATIONSHIP OF BODY COMPOSITION, MUSCLE FUNCTION, AND MUSCLE FIBER TYPE TO LOWER BODY PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE OLDER ADULTS
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- abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of body composition, muscle function and fiber type and lower body physical performance, in overweight and obese older adults.
- subject
- Adults
- Composition
- Fiber
- Function
- Muscle
- Older
- contributor
- Marsh, Anthony P (committee chair)
- Brubaker, Pete H (committee member)
- Beavers, Daniel P (committee member)
- Nicklas, Barbara (committee member)
- date
- 2014-07-15T08:35:09Z (accessioned)
- 2014 (issued)
- degree
- Health and Exercise Science (discipline)
- 10000-01-01 (liftdate)
- embargo
- forever (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39341 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- THE RELATIONSHIP OF BODY COMPOSITION, MUSCLE FUNCTION, AND MUSCLE FIBER TYPE TO LOWER BODY PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE OLDER ADULTS
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- Thesis