Obesity in International Perspective
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Reason why US BMI percentiles are possibly not useable in Belgium or France
a BMI of 18 is anorexic in US (< 5th percentile) but not genuinely more than here
(source: property.uchicago.edu/~jmshapir/obesity.pdf)
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The US-based company, which is focused on sort two diabetes and obesity, announced yesterday that it had raised $ 80 million from an IPO of CHESS depositary interests (CDIs), priced at $ 1.10. CDIs are a kind of security that enables international businesses …
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