Steps to preventing type 2 diabetes: Exercise, walk more, or sit less?

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Tudor Locke, Catrine ^a   Schuna, John M ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise therapy; Guidelines; Sedentary lifestyle; Training; Walking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874363467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2012.00142     Document Type: Short Survey

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