Walk more (frequently, farther, faster): The perfect preventive medicine

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 540-541

  Tudor Locke, Catrine ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LEISURE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; WALKING; WEIGHT GAIN;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; WALKING;

EID: 84872405913     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.07.009     Document Type: Note

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