Cardiovascular risk factor clustering and its association with fitness in nine-year-old rural Norwegian children

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Resaland, G K ^a,b   Mamen, A ^a   Boreham, C ^c   Anderssen, S A ^b   Andersen, L B ^b  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF SPORT SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

BMI; VO2peak; Z score

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; NORWAY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 75649116787     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: 16000838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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