Racial/ethnic discrepancies in the metabolic syndrome begin in childhood and persist after adjustment for environmental factors
- 29 February 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Vol. 22 (2), 141-148
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2010.05.006
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