The Influence of Body Mass on Physical Fitness Test Performance in Male Firefighter Applicants

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

• Publication date

  2017-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001145PMID 29116989
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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