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Comment
. 2018 Oct 21;39(40):3672.
doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy541.

Disproving the obesity paradox-not

Salvatore Carbone  1 , Carl J Lavie  2
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Disproving the obesity paradox-not

Salvatore Carbone et al. Eur Heart J. .
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