Anthropometric changes using a walking intervention in African American breast cancer survivors: A pilot study

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Wilson, Diane B ^a   Porter, Jerlym S ^b   Parker, Gwen ^a   Kilpatrick, James ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS; BREAST TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; WALKING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATTITUDE; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; WALKING;

EID: 33747398367     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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