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Editorial

. 2014 Mar 1;172(1):1-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.250. Epub 2014 Jan 13.

China's epidemic of child obesity: an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of treatment

Tsung O Cheng¹

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¹ Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037, United States. Electronic address: tcheng@mfa.gwu.edu.

PMID: 24467975
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.250

Editorial

China's epidemic of child obesity: an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of treatment

Tsung O Cheng. Int J Cardiol. 2014.

. 2014 Mar 1;172(1):1-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.250. Epub 2014 Jan 13.

Author

Tsung O Cheng¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037, United States. Electronic address: tcheng@mfa.gwu.edu.

PMID: 24467975
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.250

No abstract available

Keywords: China; China's one-child policy; Diabetes; Obesity; Preventive cardiology.

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