@article{ref1,
title="Step-counter determined walking in youth in Colorado",
journal="Journal of physical activity and health",
year="2007",
author="Stroebele, Nanette and Wyatt, Holly R. and Reed, George W. and Peters, John C. and Hill, James O.",
volume="4",
number="3",
pages="315-324",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Results from a statewide telephone survey of walking showed that the average adult in Colorado takes 6804 steps/d, and that steps/d were negatively associated with body mass index. No similar data exist for children. METHODS: As part of the Colorado survey, demographic information was obtained from parents for 116 children. A subsample of 59 children and adolescents (age 10 to 17 y) agreed to wear a step counter for four consecutive days. RESULTS: The youth reported taking an average of 7902 steps/d. There was a trend for children's steps/d to be positively associated with parents' steps/d and negatively associated with TV watching. CONCLUSION: This sample of children is not large enough to be considered a representative sample of Colorado youth, but this cross-sectional study provides some much needed information about steps/d in children and generates some interesting hypotheses about steps/d and other measures of health and overweight.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1543-3080",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}