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Muscle Quality, Strength, and Lower Extremity Physical Performance in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging by Chiles Shaffer, N, Fabbri, E, Ferrucci, L, Shardell, M, Simonsick, E M, Studenski, S

“…Muscle quality is defined as the force generated by each volumetric unit of muscle tissue. No consensus exists on an optimal measure of muscle quality,…”
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FAT MASS PREDICTS SURVIVAL IN MEN BUT NOT WOMEN IN THE BALTIMORE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGING by Chiles Shaffer, N., Studenski, S.A

“…Age and body mass index (BMI) are known risk factors for mortality. It is important to distinguish the makeup of one’s body composition, specifically the…”
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Biology of Aging II by Osawa, Y, Chiles Shaffer, N, Shardell, M, Studenski, S, Ferrucci, L

“…Muscle strength and body composition are known to change over time but the effect of change on mobility is not known. We hypothesized that changes in these…”
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RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE BALTIMORE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGING: WHAT IS KNOWN AND WHAT IS NEXT? by Chiles Shaffer, N, Chiles, N S, Simonsick, E M, Studenski, S A, Ferrucci, L

“…Black older adults have poorer health outcomes and physical performance than White older adults, and recent studies have indicated that these disparities may…”
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THE EMOTIONAL SIDE OF FATIGABILITY: FINDINGS FROM THE BLSA by Simonsick, E M, Chiles Shaffer, N, Gmelin, T H, Schrack, J A, Glynn, N W

“…Emotional vitality, a high sense of personal mastery and happiness and low depressive symptomatology and anxiety, has been associated with lower risk of…”
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