Survey of nutritional assessment in relation to waist to hip ratio and waist to height ratio among school going children
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عنوان ژورنال: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0974-2638,0976-7924
DOI: 10.15740/has/ijpe/9.1and2/5-9