Tale of the double pandemics, COVID-19 and obesity: a never ending story

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18051/UnivMed.2022.v41.1-3

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Roslida Abdul Hamid
Department of Biomedical Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9239-6775

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Vol. 41 No. 1 (2022)

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Tale of the double pandemics, COVID-19 and obesity: a never ending story. (2022). Universa Medicina, 41(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.18051/UnivMed.2022.v41.1-3

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