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. 1996 Feb;50(1):105–106. doi: 10.1136/jech.50.1.105

Desire for the body normal: body image and discrepancies between self reported and measured height and weight in a British population.

S Ziebland 1, M Thorogood 1, A Fuller 1, J Muir 1
PMCID: PMC1060215  PMID: 8762365

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