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01-10-2020 | Letter to the Editor

Comment on: “An Extension of Janmahasatian’s Fat-Free Mass Model for Universal Application Across Populations of Different Ethnicities”

Author: John H. P. Friesen

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I read with interest the recent manuscript by Sinha et al. [1]. …

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Title: Comment on: “An Extension of Janmahasatian’s Fat-Free Mass Model for Universal Application Across Populations of Different Ethnicities”
Author: John H. P. Friesen
Publication date: 01-10-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Clinical Pharmacokinetics / Issue 10/2020
Print ISSN: 0312-5963
Electronic ISSN: 1179-1926
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40262-020-00905-y