Average? Ideal? Desirable? A brief overview of height-weight tables in the United States

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1 April 1984

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Published by Elsevier in Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Vol. 84 (4) , 417-423
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-8223(21)08170-0

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