A randomized exercise trial in older women: Increased activity over two years and the factors associated with compliance

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1986, Pages 557-562

  Kriska, Andrea M ^a,b   Bayles, Connie ^a,b   Cauley, Jane A ^a,b   Laporte, Ronald E ^a,b   Black Sandler, Rivka ^a,b   Pambianco, Georgia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Non compliance factors; Older women; Walking

Indexed keywords

AGED; BONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); EXERCISE; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; WALKING;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023030128     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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