Identification of the obese child: adequacy of the body mass index for clinical practice and epidemiology
- 4 December 2000
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Obesity
- Vol. 24 (12), 1623-1627
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijo.0801436
Abstract
International Journal of Obesity is a monthly, multi-disciplinary forum for papers describing basic, clinical and applied studies in biochemistry, genetics and nutrition, together with molecular, metabolic, psychological and epidemiological aspects of obesity and related disordersKeywords
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