Body Size and Metabolic Health: A Phenotypic Characterisation of an Indigenous African Working Population
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How to Cite this Article: Agaba PA, Akanbi MO, Ocheke AN, Gimba ZM, Fannap BJ, Iliya FG, Agaba EI. Body Size and Metabolic Health: A Phenotypic Characterisation of an indigenous African working population. Ann Med Health Sci Res 2017; 7: 211-217 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Abstract
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