Step accumulation per minute epoch is not the same as cadence for free-living adults

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1995-2001

  Dall, Philippa Margaret ^a   McCrorie, Paul Robert Walker ^b   Granat, Malcolm Howard ^a   Stansfield, Benedict William ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Ambulation; Objective measurement; Outcome measures; Public health; Step rate

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885018777     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182955780     Document Type: Article

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