What paediatric obesity treatment programmes work, and how can we measure their success?

Acta Paediatr

Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

Published: November 2017

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