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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Agreement between skinfold-predicted percent fat and percent fat from whole-body bioelectrical impedance analysis in children and adolescents

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Pages 168-175 | Received 09 Mar 2006, Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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