The relationship between walking speed and changes in cardiovascular risk factors during a 12-day walking tour to Santiago de Compostela: A cohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bemelmans, Remy H H ^a   Blommaert, Paulus P ^a   Wassink, Annemarie M J ^a   Coll, Blai ^b   Spiering, Wilko ^a   Van Der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Visseren, Frank L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT;

EID: 84862310668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000875     Document Type: Article

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