Metabolically healthy obesity: Definitions, determinants and clinical implications

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  2013

• Venue

  Reviews in Endocrine & Metabolic Disorders

• Publication date

  2013-08-09

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1007/s11154-013-9252-xPMID 23928851
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