Assessment of obesity in a community sample of prepubertal children

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  International Journal of Obesity

• Publication date

  1999-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/sj.ijo.0800804PMID 10078859
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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