Varying Sensitivity of Waist Action Levels to Identify Subjects with Overweight or Obesity in 19 Populations of The WHO MONICA Project
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Vol. 52 (12) , 1213-1224
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0895-4356(99)00114-6
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