Cross-cultural equivalence of three scales used to estimate cardiorespiratory fitness in the elderly;Equivalência transcultural de três escalas utilizadas para estimar a aptidão cardiorrespiratória: Estudo em idosos

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2499-2510

  De Albuquerque Maranhão Neto, Geraldo ^a   De Leon, Antonio Carlos Monteiro Ponce ^a   De Tarso Veras Farinatti, Paulo ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b SALGADO DE OLIVEIRA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Health of the elderly; Physical fitness; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349134400     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2008001100005     Document Type: Article

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