Characteristics of the activity pattern in normal weight and overweight boys

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 205-208

  Stone, Michelle R ^a   Rowlands, Ann V ^a   Eston, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; Child; Physical activity; Weekday; Weekend; Weight status

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WEIGHT CONTROL;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KINETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL EXERTION;

EID: 70349296786     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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