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This research was supported by a fund (2014-E71003-00) from the research of Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (No. 2015M3A9B6027142 and 2015M3A9B6028310).

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  1. Department of Physiology, Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Poongnap-dong, Songpa-Gu, Seoul, 138-736, Republic of Korea

    Duong Duc Pham & Chae Hun Leem

  2. Institute of Human Genomic study, Korea University Ansan Hospital, 123, Jeokeum-ro, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, 15355, Republic of Korea

    Seung Ku Lee & Chol Shin

  3. Division of Pulmonary, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Ansan Hospital, 123, Jeokeum-ro, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, 15355, Republic of Korea

    Chol Shin

  4. Division of Endocrinology, Sleep, Korea University Ansan Hospital, 123, Jeokeum-ro, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, 15355, Republic of Korea

    Nan Hee Kim

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Pham, D.D., Lee, S.K., Shin, C. et al. Reply to readers’ comment on “Body weight difference between dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis attenuates the equivalence of body composition assessment”. Eur J Clin Nutr 73, 809–810 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41430-019-0410-4

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