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Look before you leap: on the issue of muscle mass assessment by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (reply to Jordan Robert Moon comments)

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  1. Department of Physical Education, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

    José A. L. Calbet, Jorge Perez-Gomez, German Vicente-Rodriguez, Ignacio Ara, Hugo Olmedillas, Javier Chavarren & Cecilia Dorado

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

    Juan José González-Henriquez

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Calbet, J.A.L., Perez-Gomez, J., Vicente-Rodriguez, G. et al. Look before you leap: on the issue of muscle mass assessment by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (reply to Jordan Robert Moon comments). Eur J Appl Physiol 104, 587–588 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0774-y

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