Effects of overweight and leisure-time activities on aerobic fitness in urban and rural adolescents

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 369-373

  Albarwani, Sulayma ^a   Al Hashmi, Khamis ^a   Al Abri, Mohammed ^a   Jaju, Deepali ^a   Hassan, Mohammed O ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; OMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; TELEVISION; URBAN POPULATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARABS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; URBAN POPULATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 68549140055     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2008.0052     Document Type: Article

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