Development of a Hebrew questionnaire to be used in epidemiological studies to assess physical fitness - Validation against sub maximal stress test and predicted VO2max

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Volumn 143, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Ken Dror, Gie ^a   Lerman, Yehuda ^a,b   Segev, Shlomo ^a,c   Dankner, Rachel ^a,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute Israel   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Exercise; Maximal Oxygen Consumption; Physical activity; Physical fitness; Questionnaire; Reliability; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENDER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPORTS;

EID: 19244366290     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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