Validity of Queen's College Step Test for estimation of maximum oxygen uptake in female students

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-35

  Chatterjee, Satipati ^a   Chatterjee, Pratima ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Amit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b Opposite Private Ward Gate of Civil Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Indian females; QCT; Sedentary; VO2max

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BODY MASS; COLLEGE STUDENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; PULSE RATE; RANDOMIZATION; SITTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 14544279453     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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