A pedometer-based intervention to improve physical activity, fitness, and coronary heart disease risk in national guard personnel

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 592-600

  Talbot, Laura A ^a   Metter, E Jeffrey ^b   Morrell, Christopher H ^c   Frick, Kevin D ^d   Weinstein, Ali A ^e   Fleg, Jerome L ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b HARBOR HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MONITORING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY DISEASE; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MARYLAND; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 79960952096     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00256     Document Type: Article

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