Is low BMI associated with specific drug use among injecting drug users?

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Is low BMI associated with specific drug use among injecting drug users?

Body mass index (BMI) of a sample of people who regularly inject drugs (N = 781) was examined to gauge the impact of specific types of drug use. Cross-sectional interviews were undertaken in 2010 as part of a national monitoring program funded by the Australian Government. Latent class analysis iden...

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Main Authors:	McIlwraith, F., Betts, K., Jenkinson, R., Hickey, S., Burns, L., Alati, Rosa
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Informa Healthcare 2014
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73394

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