Exercise during Pregnancy: What Do We Really Know?

American Family Physician

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1053-1056

  Snyder, Susan ^a,b   Pendergraph, Bernadette ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LABOR; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 1542347940     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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