Gender differentials of abdominal obesity among the adults in the district of Colombo, Sri Lanka
- 28 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Preventive Medicine
- Vol. 44 (2), 129-134
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.11.004
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