Assessing physical activity in daily life, exercise, and sedentary behavior among Japanese moving to westernized environment: A cross-sectional study of Japanese migrants at an urban primary care center in Pittsburgh

Asia Pacific Family Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hirooka, Nobutaka ^a   Takedai, Teiichi ^b   D'Amico, Frank ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Japanese in USA; Noncommunicable diseases; Physical activity; Sedentary behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892395462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1447056X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1447-056X-13-3     Document Type: Article

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