1Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
2Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
3Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
4Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
5Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, MD
6Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, TX
7South Texas Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Antonio, TX
*Contributed equally to this manuscript
Correspondence: Andrew W. Gardner, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of PM&R, Penn State College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850, Mail Code HP28, Hershey, PA 17033. Telephone: (717) 531-0003 x282052, E-mail: [email protected].
Supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging (R01-AG-16685, K01-00657), a Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center grant from NIA (P60-AG-12583 and P60-AG-28747), a Veterans Affairs Career Development Award (IK2RX001788 and IK2RX000944) and by the Geriatric Research Education, and Clinical Center grant (GRECC) from the Veterans Affairs administration. The authors have no conflicts of interest. The results of the study are presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation. The results of the present study do not constitute endorsement by ACSM.
Accepted for Publication: 17 September 2020
