Applying the sports medicine Australia pre-exerclse screening procedures: Who will be excluded?

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-51

  Norton, Kevin ^a   Olds, Tim ^c   Bowes, Deborah ^c   Van Ly, Sen ^c   Gore, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; DIURETIC AGENT; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCREENING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 0031802802     PISSN: 14402440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1440-2440(98)80007-8     Document Type: Article

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