Considerable Disagreement Among Definitions of Metabolic Syndrome for Japanese
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Changing definitions of metabolic syndrome
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1346-9843,1347-4820
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.1239