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Identifying menarcheal age and its association with body mass index in young Saudi females

Nazish Rafique and Mona H. AlSheikh
Saudi Medical Journal September 2019, 40 (9) 958-961; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.9.24425
Nazish Rafique
From the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Immam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, FCPS
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Mona H. AlSheikh
From the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Immam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MBBS, PhD
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