State-Specific Prevalance of Obesity Among Adults with Disabilities--Eight States and the District of Columbia, 1998-1999
Tags: OBESITY; PEOPLE with disabilities -- United States
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- From the chairman. Belson, Jerome // WE Magazine;Nov/Dec98, Vol. 2 Issue 6, p2
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