How current Guidelines for obesity underestimate risk in certain ethnicities and overestimate risk in others

Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-101

  Sumner, Anne E ^a   Ricks, Madia ^b   Sen, Sabyasachi ^b   Frempong, Barbara A ^b  

^a not available   (United States)

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EID: 57649141148     PISSN: 19329520     EISSN: 19329563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12170-007-0016-6     Document Type: Article

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