Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (1990), 49:423-436 Cambridge University Press

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doi:10.1079/PNS19900050

Symposium on ‘Growth’

Body composition: the precision and accuracy of new methods and their Suitablity suitab for longitudinal studies

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