Reduced diabetic, hypertensive, and cholesterol medication use with walking

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 433-443

  Williams, Paul T ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Epidemiology; Exercise; Population; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; WALKING;

EID: 39749188834     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31815f38f1     Document Type: Article

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