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Journal of Obesity
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 318176, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/318176
Clinical Study

Treadmill Calibration of the Actigraph GT1M in Young-to-Middle-Aged Obese-to-Severely Obese Subjects

Eivind Aadland1 and Sigmund Alfred Anderssen2

1Faculty of Health Studies, Sogn og Fjordane University College, P.O. Box 523, 6803 Førde, Norway
2Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, P.O. Box 4014, Ullevaal Stadion, 0806 Oslo, Norway

Received 21 August 2012; Revised 2 October 2012; Accepted 2 October 2012

Academic Editor: David Allison

Copyright © 2012 Eivind Aadland and Sigmund Alfred Anderssen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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