Overall obesity and abdominal obesity and the risk of metabolic abnormalities
β Scribed by SW Lai; KC Ng
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Volume
- 173
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1863-4362
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