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Comment
. 2019;23(4):393-395.
doi: 10.1007/s12603-019-1177-y.

Letter to the editor: Case for validated instead of standard cut-offs for SARC-CalF

W S Lim  1 , J Chew, J P Lim, L Tay, N Hafizah, Y Y Ding
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Comment

Letter to the editor: Case for validated instead of standard cut-offs for SARC-CalF

W S Lim et al. J Nutr Health Aging. 2019.
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