Purposeful exercise, including bicycle transportation, improves health

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 292-293

  Maitland, Murray E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AIR POLLUTION; BICYCLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; FITNESS; FOLLOW UP; GARDENING; GENDER; HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INJURY; MORBIDITY; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEER REVIEW; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WALKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BICYCLING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84860725232     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: 15363724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e318256e797     Document Type: Note

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