The effect of a worksite based walking programme on cardiovascular risk in previously sedentary civil servants [NCT00284479]

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Murphy, Marie H ^a   Murtagh, Elaine M ^a   Boreham, Colin A G ^a   Hare, Lesley G ^b   Nevill, Alan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SITTING; WALKING; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPE; FITNESS; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGY; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL FITNESS; WALKING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33746032919     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-136     Document Type: Article

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