Accuracy of heart rate watches: Implications for weight management

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Wallen, Matthew P ^a   Gomersall, Sjaan R ^a   Keating, Shelley E ^a   Wisløff, Ulrik ^b   Coombes, Jeff S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CYCLING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ERGOMETER; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIRECT CALORIMETRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; RUNNING; TREADMILL; WALKING; WRIST WORN MONITOR; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973130148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154420     Document Type: Article

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