Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents
- 26 July 2007
- Vol. 335 (7612) , 166-167
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39281.439178.80
Abstract
Footnotes ARTICLE Competing interests: None declared. Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.Keywords
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