Obesity and hip osteoarthritis: the weight of the evidence is increasing
- 1 February 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 114 (2) , 158-159
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9343(02)01548-6
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