Active Commuting and Multiple Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- 16 November 2018
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Sports Medicine
- Vol. 49 (3), 437-452
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-018-1023-0
Abstract
Active commuting is associated with greater physical activity, but there is no consensus on the actual beneficial effects of this type of physical activity on health outcomes.This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
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