T'ai chi as exercise among middle-aged and elderly Chinese in urban China

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 550-557

  Birdee, Gurjeet S ^a   Cai, Hui ^a   Xiang, Yong Bing ^b   Yang, Gong ^a   Li, Honglan ^b   Gao, Yutang ^b   Zheng, Wei ^a   Shu, Xiao Ou ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; CHINESE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DANCING; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GINSENG; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JOGGING; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MARTIAL ART; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TAI CHI; TEA; TENNIS; URBAN AREA; WALKING;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAI JI; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84878782639     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: 15577708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2012.0223     Document Type: Article

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