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Gånghastighet hos en population med ökande Body Mass Index

Bäckman, Emma and Theander, Elin (2009) In LUTVDG/TVBB-5300-SE
Division of Fire Safety Engineering
Fire Protection Engineering 3,5 years
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
Abstract
The focus of the report lays on if and how walking speed has been affected by the increasing obesity rates in Sweden. Comparisions between people of normal respectively obese weight has been made. This is a a study that questions whether the current walking speeds derived from the 1960’s and the 1970’s still can be used as reliable measures given that the composition of the population is not the same today then 50 years ago. To get a wider percpective differences between ages has
also been taken into consideration.
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author
Bäckman, Emma and Theander, Elin
supervisor
organization
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
trappor, fetma, Body Mass Index (BMI), Gånghastighet, utrymning, experiment
publication/series
LUTVDG/TVBB-5300-SE
report number
5300
ISSN
1402-3504
language
Swedish
id
1767708
date added to LUP
2011-01-25 08:33:22
date last changed
2014-03-10 10:40:37
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  abstract     = {{The focus of the report lays on if and how walking speed has been affected by the increasing obesity rates in Sweden. Comparisions between people of normal respectively obese weight has been made. This is a a study that questions whether the current walking speeds derived from the 1960’s and the 1970’s still can be used as reliable measures given that the composition of the population is not the same today then 50 years ago. To get a wider percpective differences between ages has
also been taken into consideration.}},
  author       = {{Bäckman, Emma and Theander, Elin}},
  issn         = {{1402-3504}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{LUTVDG/TVBB-5300-SE}},
  title        = {{Gånghastighet hos en population med ökande Body Mass Index}},
  year         = {{2009}},
}