Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure Amongst Recently Arrived Sudanese Refugees in Queensland, Australia

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

• Publication date

  2014-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1007/s10903-013-9791-yPMID 23576028
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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