Relationship of obesity to physical activity, domestic activities, and sedentary behaviours: cross-sectional findings from a national cohort of over 70,000 Thai adults.

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Published in BMC Public Health on October 04, 2011

Authors

Emily Banks1, Lynette Lim, Sam-Ang Seubsman, Chris Bain, Adrian Sleigh

Author Affiliations

1: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. emily.banks@anu.edu.au

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