The steep ramp test in healthy children and adolescents: Reliability and validity

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 366-371

  Bongers, Bart C ^a   De Vries, Sanne I ^b   Helders, Paul J M ^a   Takken, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

child; Exercise testing; physical fitness; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872839820     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31826e32c5     Document Type: Article

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