Preferred clinical measures of central obesity for predicting mortality

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

• Publication date

  2007-02-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602656PMID 17299478
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