The strongwomen-healthy hearts program: Reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors in rural sedentary, overweight, and obese midlife and older women

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1271-1277

  Folta, Sara C ^a   Lichtenstein, Alice H ^b   Seguin, Rebecca A ^a   Goldberg, Jeanne P ^a   Kuder, Julia F ^a   Nelson, Miriam E ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SITTING; SOCIAL STATUS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AGED; CALORIC INTAKE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXERCISE; HEALTH; LOW CALORY DIET; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARKANSAS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIET, REDUCING; ENERGY INTAKE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; KANSAS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650756625     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.145581     Document Type: Article

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