Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics

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Simple universal cutoff point of waist-height ratio for metabolic risk in Korean children and adolescents

  • Kim, Hae Soon (Department of Pediatrics, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2019.01.10
  • Accepted : 2019.03.28
  • Published : 2019.07.15
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