Are overweight and obese airmen at greater risk of discharge from the United States Air Force?

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 585-588

  Poston, Walker S Carlos ^a   Haddock, C Keith ^a   Talcott, G Wayne ^a   Klesges, Robert C ^a   Lando, Harry A ^a   Peterson, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR FORCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; OBESITY; TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036066469     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.7.585     Document Type: Article

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