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  1. Department of Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-0033, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Masayoshi Kumagai & Dr. Naoya Yahagi

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Kumagai, M., Yahagi, N. (2013). Basal Metabolic Rate. In: Gellman, M.D., Turner, J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1005-9_377

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