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Prevalence of and risk factors for childhood overweight and obesity

Paul J. Veugelers and Angela L. Fitzgerald

CMAJ September 13, 2005 173 (6) 607-613; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.050445

Paul J. Veugelers

From the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. (Veugelers) and the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Veugelers, Fitzgerald)

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Angela L. Fitzgerald

From the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. (Veugelers) and the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Veugelers, Fitzgerald)

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Prevalence of and risk factors for childhood overweight and obesity

Paul J. Veugelers, Angela L. Fitzgerald

CMAJ Sep 2005, 173 (6) 607-613; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.050445

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