Three limitations of the body mass index.

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

• Publication date

  1986-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/AJCN/44.6.996PMID 3788846
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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