Popular weight-management apps: Their use and quality
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The Most Popular Smartphone Apps for Weight Loss: A Quality Assessment
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Public Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2296-2565
DOI: 10.3389/conf.fpubh.2016.01.00112