Universal cut-off BMI points for obesity are not appropriate
Open Access
- 1 February 2001
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 85 (2) , 135-136
- https://doi.org/10.1079/bjn2000273
Abstract
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