Effect of a primary health-care-based controlled trial for cardiorespiratory fitness in refugee women

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sundquist, Jan ^a   Hagströmer, Maria ^b   Johansson, Sven Erik ^a   Sundquist, Kristina ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PRESCRIPTIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77955621214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-11-55     Document Type: Article

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