Waist-to-height ratio and its associations with body mass index in a sample of Tuscan children in primary school
Open Access
- 7 June 2017
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Italian Journal of Pediatrics
- Vol. 43 (1), 53
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-017-0372-x
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