Reliability and validity of a twelve-minute walking test for coronary heart disease patients

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 567-575

  De Greef, Mathieu H G ^a   Sprenger, Siska R ^a   Elzenga, Corrie T A ^a   Popkema, Dorien Y ^a   Bennekers, Johan H ^a   Niemeijer, Menco G ^a   Middel, Berry ^a   Mook, Gerrit A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING;

EID: 19844377403     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.100.2.567-575     Document Type: Article

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