Methodological description of accelerometry for measuring physical activity in the 1993 and 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohorts;Descrição metodológica do uso de acelerometria para mensurar a prática de atividade física nas coortes de nascimentos de Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, 1993 e 2004

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 557-565

  Knuth, Alan Goularte ^a   Assunção, Maria Cecília F ^b   Gonçalves, Helen ^b   Menezes, Ana Maria B ^b   Santos, Iná S ^b   Barros, Aluísio J D ^b   Matijasevich, Alicia ^b   Ramires, Virgílio Viana ^b   da Silva, Inácio Crochemore Mohnsam ^b   Hallal, Pedro Curi ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cohort Studies; Methodology; Motor Activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875531263     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2013000300013     Document Type: Article

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