Body mass index: a comparison between self-reported and measured height and weight.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Journal of Public Health Medicine

• Publication date

  1998-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.PUBMED.A024744PMID 9675741
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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