How many days of pedometer use predict the annual activity of the elderly Reliably?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1058-1064

  Togo, Fumiharu ^a,b   Watanabe, Eiji ^a   Park, Hyuntae ^a   Yasunaga, Akitomo ^a   Park, Sungjin ^a   Shephard, Roy J ^c   Aoyagi, Yukitoshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Habitual physical activity; Outcome assessment; Sampling techniques; Seasonal variations; Step count; Walking

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; AMBULATORY MONITORING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LEISURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SEASON; WALKING;

AGED; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEASONS; WALKING;

EID: 54049127408     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318167469a     Document Type: Article

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