Overweight and Obesity: Prevalence, Consequences, and Causes of a Growing Public Health Problem
- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
- Vol. 331 (4), 166-174
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000441-200604000-00002
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