Looking back: BMI as a measure of body fatness: age- and sex-specific prediction formulas. Thirty years later.

Br J Nutr

Department of Health Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam (room MF-J381), the Netherlands.

Published: April 2022

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