Clinical Importance of Steps Taken per Day among Persons with Multiple Sclerosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Motl, Robert W ^a   Pilutti, Lara A ^a   Learmonth, Yvonne C ^a   Goldman, Myla D ^b   Brown, Ted ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c MS Center at Evergreen   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WALKING SCALE 12; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DETERMINED DISEASE STEPS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEDOMETER; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; WALKING; WALKING AID;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 84883351732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073247     Document Type: Article

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