Fitness level and body composition indices: cross-sectional study among Malaysian adolescent.

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Published in BMC Public Health on November 24, 2014

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Redzal Abu Hanifah, Hazreen Abdul Majid, Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin, Nabilla Al-Sadat, Liam J Murray, Marie Cantwell, Tin Tin Su, Azmi Mohamed Nahar

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