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. 2013 Nov;98(5):1368-9.
doi: 10.3945/ajcn.113.068379.

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David R Weber  1 , Reneé H Moore, Mary B Leonard, Babette S Zemel
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David R Weber et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013 Nov.
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FIGURE 1.
Cross-sectional correlations between height and BMI, FMI [(fat mass)/height2], and FMI3 [(fat mass)/height3] among 7336 NHANES participants aged 8–20 y. Pearson’s correlation coefficients are shown. FMI, fat mass index.
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