EFL058 - BMI vs Percent Body Fat in Defining Obesity
Join host Chase Hendrickson, MD, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in a discussion about a study in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism that reports the relationship between…
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