Ethnic-specific revisions of body mass index cutoffs to define overweight and obesity in Asians are not warranted
- 23 October 2003
- journal article
- comment
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Obesity
- Vol. 27 (11), 1297-1299
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijo.0802417
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