Assessing obesity: are ethnic differences in body mass index and waist classification criteria justified?
- 26 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Obesity Reviews
- Vol. 6 (3), 179-181
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-789x.2005.00214.x
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