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Use of the Danish Adoption Register for the study of obesity and thinness.
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This article is published in Research publications - Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease.The article was published on 1983-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1692 citations till now.read more
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Interventions for preventing obesity in children
Tamara Brown,Theresa Hm Moore,Theresa Hm Moore,Lee Hooper,Yang Gao,Amir Zayegh,Sharea Ijaz,Sharea Ijaz,Martha M C Elwenspoek,Martha M C Elwenspoek,Sophie C Foxen,Lucia Magee,Claire O'Malley,Elizabeth Waters,Carolyn Summerbell +14 more
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