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Short sleep duration is a novel independent risk factor for overweight and obesity

Nazish Rafique
Saudi Medical Journal November 2023, 44 (11) 1160-1166; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2023.44.11.20230111
Nazish Rafique
From the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
MBBS, FCPS
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vol. 44 no. 11 1160-1166
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2023.44.11.20230111
PubMed 
37926446

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 14, 2023
  • Accepted September 20, 2023
  • Published online November 4, 2023.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Nazish Rafique, MBBS, FCPS⇑
  1. From the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Nazish Rafique, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: nryahmed{at}iau.edu.sa
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