Relationships between indices of obesity and its co-morbidities in multi-ethnic Singapore

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  International Journal of Obesity

• Publication date

  2001-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801739PMID 11673781
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