Interpreting the Persistence of the VO2 Ratio-Scaling Fallacy

in Pediatric Exercise Science
Raffy Dotan * , 1
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  • 1 Brock University
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/pes.2019-0051
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Volume 31: Issue 3
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379–381
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The author is with the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Dotan (rdotan@brocku.ca) is corresponding author.

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