Waist and hip circumferences and all-cause mortality: usefulness of the waist-to-hip ratio?
- 30 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Obesity
- Vol. 28 (6), 741-747
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijo.0802635
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