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Editorial
. 2013 Sep;21(9):1744-5.
doi: 10.1002/oby.20588.

Overweight, mortality and survival

Katherine M Flegal  1 , Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh
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Editorial

Overweight, mortality and survival

Katherine M Flegal et al. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Sep.
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