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- 2014
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- review
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 17-17
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- 208
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Martin Wabitsch,
Anja Moß,
Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild
(2014).
Unexpected plateauing of childhood obesity rates in developed countries.
BMC Medicine
, 12
(1)
, 17-17.
https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-17
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- DOI
- 10.1186/1741-7015-12-17