The Effect of a Walking Program on Blood Pressure Response in African-American Women

ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2000, Pages

  O'Hara, Reginald B ^b   Baer, Janine T ^b   Pohlman, Roberta L ^a   Laubach, Lloyd L ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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