Body Mass Index, Muscle Strength and Physical Performance in Older Adults from Eight Cohort Studies: The HALCyon Programme

• Rebecca Hardy ,

  * E-mail: r.hardy@nshd.mrc.ac.uk

  Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Rachel Cooper,

  Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Avan Aihie Sayer,

  Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Yoav Ben-Shlomo,

  Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Cyrus Cooper,

  Affiliations Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health and Research Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Ian J. Deary,

  Affiliation Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Panayotes Demakakos,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• John Gallacher,

  Affiliation Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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• Richard M. Martin,

  Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Geraldine McNeill,

  Affiliation Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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• John M. Starr,

  Affiliations Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Geriatric Medicine Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Andrew Steptoe,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Holly Syddall,

  Affiliation Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Diana Kuh,

  Affiliation Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing and Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• on behalf of the HALCyon study team

  ¶Membership of the HALCyon Study team is provided in the Acknowledgments

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