True and false interindividual differences in the physiological response to an intervention

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 577-588

  Atkinson, Greg ^a   Batterham, Alan M ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NONHUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOM ERROR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STATISTICAL BIAS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADAPTATION; ARTIFACT; BLOOD PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARTIFACTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRECISION MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84930570613     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/EP085070     Document Type: Review

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