Body-mass index and all-cause mortality - Authors' reply

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¹ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.
² Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK. Electronic address: jd292@medschl.cam.ac.uk.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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Emanuele Di Angelantonio et al. Lancet. 2017.

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¹ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.
² Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK. Electronic address: jd292@medschl.cam.ac.uk.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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