More on body fat cutoff points

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 584-

  Ho Pham, Lan T ^a   Campbell, Lesley V ^b   Nguyen, Tuan V ^b  

^a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FAT; BODY MASS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIPID COMPOSITION; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79957769591     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/mcp.2011.0097     Document Type: Letter

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