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Editorial
. 2000 Feb;172(2):78-9.
doi: 10.1136/ewjm.172.2.78.

The epidemic of obesity

G A Bray, J Macdiarmid
Editorial

The epidemic of obesity

G A Bray et al. West J Med. 2000 Feb.
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