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Review
. 2009 May;79(5):334-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.11.017. Epub 2009 Jan 17.

Obesity and oral contraceptive pill failure

James Trussell  1 , Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, Katherine Guthrie
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Review

Obesity and oral contraceptive pill failure

James Trussell et al. Contraception. 2009 May.
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