Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 259-261 , November 2009

Waist circumference in primary care

Received 22 July 2009 ,Revised 22 September 2009 ,Accepted 30 September 2009.

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Primary Care Diabetes
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