Reducing adolescent obesity with a mobile fitness application: Study results of youth age 15 to 17

2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 554-558

  Lu, Fletcher ^a   Turner, Kei ^b   Murphy, Bernadette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

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EID: 84894201887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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