Impact of physical activity and body composition on heart function and morphology in middle-aged, abdominally obese women

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 354-359

  Eriksson, Michael ^a   Uddén, Joanna ^a   Hemmingsson, Erik ^a   Agewall, Stefan ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cycling; Echocardiography; Heart function; Obesity; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CYCLING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; BICYCLING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WALKING;

EID: 77955813897     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2010.00952.x     Document Type: Article

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