Habitual physical activity, psychomotor performance, and older workers

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 4 II, 1996, Pages

  Ilmarinen, Juhani ^a   Pohjonen, Tiina ^a   Punakallio, Anne ^a   Louhevaara, Veikko ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; SENESCENCE;

EID: 0030035411     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03898.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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