Epidemiology of obesity: A global burden for the new millennium

Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 21-29

  Pain, Gopal C ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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