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Comparison of body size and composition between young adult Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals in the 1980s

Yasuaki Tahara Institute of Environmental Stress University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA
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Kazuhiko Moji Department of School Health and Health Promotion Faculty of Education Nagasaki University Nagasaki 852-8521 Japan
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Satoshi Muraki Research Center for Tropical Infectious Diseases Institute of Tropical Medicine Nagasaki University Japan
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Sumihisa Honda Siebold University of Nagasaki Japan
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Kiyoshi Aoyagi Department of Radiation Epidemiology Atomic Bomb Disease Institute Nagasaki University School of Medicine Japan; Department of Public Health Nagasaki University School of Medicine Japan
Pages 392-401 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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