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Comprehensive geriatric functional analysis of elderly populations in four categories of the long-term care insurance system in a rural, depopulated and aging town in Japan

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Incidence and risk factors for radiographic knee osteoarthritis and knee pain in Japanese men and women: A longitudinal population-based cohort study

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The concept and treatment of locomotive syndrome: its acceptance and spread in Japan

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Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

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Predicting ADL disability in community-dwelling elderly people using physical frailty indicators: a systematic review

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Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis: Report of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People

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Cohort Profile: Research on Osteoarthritis/Osteoporosis Against Disability study

(2009) N. Yoshimura et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Prevalence of knee osteoarthritis, lumbar spondylosis, and osteoporosis in Japanese men and women: the research on osteoarthritis/osteoporosis against disability study

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Locomotive syndrome: disability-free life expectancy and locomotive organ health in a “super-aged” society

(2009) Kozo Nakamura   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SCIENCE

Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies

(2009) Prospective Studies Collaboration   LANCET

Prevalence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis and its association with knee pain in the elderly of Japanese population-based cohorts: The ROAD study

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A “super-aged” society and the “locomotive syndrome”

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