Impact of Baseline BMI upon the Success of Latina Participants Enrolled in a 6-Month Physical Activity Intervention

• Main Authors: Sheri J. Hartman (Author), Shira I. Dunsiger (Author), Dori W. Pekmezi (Author), Brooke Barbera (Author), Charles J. Neighbors (Author), Becky Marquez (Author), Bess H. Marcus (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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High rates of obesity in Latinas highlight the need to determine if physical activity interventions are equally effective across the body mass index (BMI) range. Thus, this study assessed how BMI impacts success of Spanish-speaking Latinas in a culturally and linguistically adapted theory-based phys...