Ergo-anthropometric assessment: Reply

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 941-942

  Lavie, Carl J ^a   Sierra Johnson, Justo ^b  

^a OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ERGOMETRY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; WAIST HIP RATIO;

EID: 70350236525     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/84.10.941     Document Type: Letter

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