Six-Minute Walk Test in Children and Adolescents

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Geiger, Ralf ^a   Strasak, Alexander ^a   Treml, Benedikt ^a   Gasser, Klaus ^a   Kleinsasser, Axel ^a   Fischer, Victoria ^a   Geiger, Harald ^b   Loeckinger, Alexander ^a   Stein, Joerg I ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b District Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WALKING; WALKING AID;

EID: 33947310954     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.12.052     Document Type: Article

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