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Natalia Nowak-Szczepanska1, Aleksandra Gomula1, Slawomir Koziel1

  • 1Department of Anthropology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences in Wroclaw, 50-449Wroclaw, Poland.

Public Health Nutrition
|July 15, 2020
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Keywords:
BMIMid-upper arm circumferenceNutritional statusSocio-economic factors

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