Obesity and other risk factors: the national survey of U.S. long-haul truck driver health and injury.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  American Journal of Industrial Medicine

• Publication date

  2014-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1002/ajim.22293PMID 24390804PMCID PMC4511102
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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