The Healthy Lifestyle Change Program: a pilot of a community-based health promotion intervention for adults with developmental disabilities.

@article{Bazzano2009TheHL,
  title={The Healthy Lifestyle Change Program: a pilot of a community-based health promotion intervention for adults with developmental disabilities.},
  author={Alicia Bazzano and Ari S Zeldin and Ida R Shihady Diab and Nicole Garro and Nathalia A Allevato and Danise Lehrer},
  journal={American journal of preventive medicine},
  year={2009},
  volume={37 6 Suppl 1},
  pages={
          S201-8
        }
}
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