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Research Article

Sizes and obesity pattern of South Iranian adolescent females

S. M. T. Ayatollahi Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran
Pages 191-202 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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