Effects of load carriage on heart rate, blood pressure and energy expenditure in children

Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 717-727

  Hong, Youlian ^a   Li, Jing Xian ^a   Wong, Aaron Shun Ki ^a   Robinson, Paul D ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Children; Energy expenditure; Heart rate; Load carriage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0033934890     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401300404698     Document Type: Article

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