Characteristics of activity fitness of daily living in elderly Korean women

Japanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 355-364

  Kim, Hunkyung ^a   Tanaka, Kiyoji ^a   Shigematsu, Ryosuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity fitness; Elderly women; Factor structure; Prediction equation; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347529184     PISSN: 0039906X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7600/jspfsm1949.46.355     Document Type: Article

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