Separating bedtime rest from activity using waist or wrist-worn accelerometers in youth.

Recent interest in sedentary behavior and technological advances expanded use of watch-size accelerometers for continuous monitoring of physical activity (PA) over extended periods (e.g., 24 h/day for 1 week) in studies conducted in natural living environment. This approach necessitates the developm...

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Main Authors: Dustin J Tracy, Zhiyi Xu, Leena Choi, Sari Acra, Kong Y Chen, Maciej S Buchowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3984076?pdf=render