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Doubt cast on routine screening to pick up overweight and obese schoolchildren
04-23-2007 · EurekAlert!Primary schoolchildren should not be routinely screened for obesity and overweight in the absence of effective treatment, finds research in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
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