Determinants of sports, cycling, walking and overall leisure-time physical activity among postmenopausal women in Germany

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1905-1914

  Steindorf, Karen ^a   Chang Claude, Jenny ^a   Flesch Janys, Dieter ^b   Schmidt, Martina E ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Determinants; Health promotion; Physical activity; Women

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WALKING;

AGED; BICYCLING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SPORTS; WALKING;

EID: 79451475565     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010001965     Document Type: Article

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