Validation of Fitbit-Flex as a measure of free-living physical activity in a community-based phase III cardiac rehabilitation population

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 1476-1485

  Alharbi, Muaddi ^a   Bauman, Adrian ^a   Neubeck, Lis ^a   Gallagher, Robyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accelerometer; Actigraph; activity monitor; cardiac rehabilitation; Coronary heart disease; Fitbit; physical activity; validity

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ACTIMETRY; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMBULATORY MONITORING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; ENERGY METABOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; HEART DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING;

ACTIGRAPHY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC REHABILITATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING;

EID: 84984924379     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2047487316634883     Document Type: Article

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