Body mass index and ABO blood groups among different ethnicities of the Golestan Cohort Study subjects

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Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-54

  Jafari, Elham ^a   Sebghatollahi, Vahid ^a   Kolahdoozan, Shadi ^a   Elahi, Elham ^a   Pourshams, Akram ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood groups; BMI; Ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861919460     PISSN: 15607186     EISSN: 2008756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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