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Associations Between Body Fat Percentage and Fitness among Police Officers: A Statewide Study

BACKGROUND: Police work is generally sedentary although there may be situations that require physical endurance and strength, such as foot chases and arresting suspects. Factors such as excessive body fat can impede an officer's physical ability to deal with such occurrences. Our objective was...

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Autores principales: Violanti, John M., Ma, Claudia C., Fekedulegn, Desta, Andrew, Michael E., Gu, Ja K., Hartley, Tara A., Charles, Luenda E., Burchfiel, Cecil M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5355530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28344839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2016.07.004