Obesity: epidemiology and possible prevention
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 16 (4) , 595-610
- https://doi.org/10.1053/beem.2002.0228
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