Influences of body composition upon the relative metabolic and cardiovascular demands of load-carriage.

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Occupational Medicine

• Publication date

  2005-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/OCCMED/KQI087PMID 15860484
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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