94 CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN CHILDHOOD OBESITY
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Childhood Obesity, Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Premature Death
From the Diabetes Epidemiology and Clinical Research Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, AZ (P.W.F., R.L.H., W.C.K., M.L.S., P.H.B., H.C.L.); the Genetic Epidemiology and Clinical Research Group, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Section for Medicine, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden (P.W.F.); ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199112000-00124