How Many Steps/Day Are Enough? Preliminary Pedometer Indices for Public Health

Sports Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Tudor Locke, Catrine ^a   Bassett Jr , David R ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MOTION; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SELF MONITORING; SENSOR; SITTING; SPORT; WALKING;

AGE FACTORS; GOALS; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFERENCE STANDARDS; WALKING;

EID: 0442291779     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200434010-00001     Document Type: Review

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