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News Feature: Asia's big problem

Nature Medicine volume 10, pages 325–327 (2004)Cite this article

All the world loves to mock obese Americans, but weightier issues lurk in Asia, where diabetes and heart disease run rampant. The first hurdle may be a Western measure that is blind to the expanding fat in Asians' deceptively thin bodies.

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Mandavilli, A., Cyranoski, D. News Feature: Asia's big problem. Nat Med 10, 325–327 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0404-325

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