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. 2014 Dec 1;180(11):1129-30.
doi: 10.1093/aje/kwu300. Epub 2014 Nov 6.

Flegal et al. reply

Katherine M Flegal  1 , Brian K Kit  1 , Barry I Graubard  2
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