Relationship between resting metabolic rate and physical activity in adolescents : the PAHL study / S.N. Wushe.

Obesity is affecting an increasingly larger proportion of adolescents in the world, and this can be attributed to low resting metabolic rate (RMR) as well as reduced physical activity (PA) levels. Little is known about objectively determined habitual PA and RMR in 16 year old African adolescents. Th...

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Main Author: Wushe, Sandra Ntombizanele
Language:en
Published: North-West University 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9734