Association between walking speed and age in healthy, free-living individuals using mobile accelerometry-a cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Schimpl, Michaela ^a,b   Moore, Carmel ^c   Lederer, Christian ^a   Neuhaus, Anneke ^a   Sambrook, Jennifer ^d   Danesh, John ^c   Ouwehand, Willem ^d   Daumer, Martin ^a,b  

^a Sylvia Lawry Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research eV The Human Motion Institute   (Germany)

^b TRIUM ANALYSIS ONLINE GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; WALKING SPEED; ACCELERATION; ACTIMETRY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALGORITHM; BLOOD PRESSURE; DATA BASE; GAIT; HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WALKING;

ACCELERATION; ACTIGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GAIT; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051496117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023299     Document Type: Article

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