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The association between body mass index and academic performance

Khaled A. Alswat, Abdullah D. Al-shehri, Tariq A. Aljuaid, Bassam A. Alzaidi and Hassan D. Alasmari
Saudi Medical Journal February 2017, 38 (2) 186-191; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.2.16320
Khaled A. Alswat
From the Department of Internal Medicine, Taif University School of Medicine, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, CCD
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Abdullah D. Al-shehri
From the Department of Internal Medicine, Taif University School of Medicine, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Tariq A. Aljuaid
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Bassam A. Alzaidi
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Hassan D. Alasmari
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vol. 38 no. 2 186-191
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.2.16320
PubMed 
28133692

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 31, 2016
  • Accepted November 21, 2016
  • Published online February 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Khaled A. Alswat, MBBS, CCD⇑,
  2. Abdullah D. Al-shehri, MBBS,
  3. Tariq A. Aljuaid, MBBS,
  4. Bassam A. Alzaidi, MBBS and
  5. Hassan D. Alasmari, MBBS
  1. From the Department of Internal Medicine, Taif University School of Medicine, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Khaled Alswat, Department of Internal Medicine, Taif University School of Medicine, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: kalswat{at}hotmail.com
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