Choosing an index for abdominal obesity: An opportunity for epidemiologic clarification
- 31 May 1993
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Vol. 46 (5), 491-494
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0895-4356(93)90027-x
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