Relationships between indices of obesity and its co-morbidities in multi-ethnic Singapore
- 23 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in International Journal of Obesity
- Vol. 25 (10) , 1554-1562
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijo.0801739
Abstract
International Journal of Obesity is a monthly, multi-disciplinary forum for papers describing basic, clinical and applied studies in biochemistry, genetics and nutrition, together with molecular, metabolic, psychological and epidemiological aspects of obesity and related disordersKeywords
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