Influence of demographic, physiologic, and psychosocial variables on adherence to a yearlong moderate-intensity exercise trial in postmenopausal women

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1080-1086

  Irwin, Melinda L ^a   Tworoger, Shelley S ^b   Yasui, Yutaka ^c,d   Rajan, Bharat ^c,d   McVarish, Lynda ^c   LaCroix, Kristin ^c   Ulrich, Cornelia M ^c,d   Bowen, Deborah ^c   Schwartz, Robert S ^e   Potter, John D ^c,d   McTiernan, Anne ^c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Compliance; Diabetes; Fitness; Intervention; Obesity; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBESITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SITTING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPORT;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 20844458249     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.04.017     Document Type: Article

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