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. 2021 Aug 16;193(32):E1250-E1252.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.202128.

Unhealthy alcohol use in a 65-year-old man awaiting surgery

Thomas D Brothers  1 , Jillian Kaulbach  2 , Allen Tran  2
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Unhealthy alcohol use in a 65-year-old man awaiting surgery

Thomas D Brothers et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Thomas Brothers is supported by the Dalhousie University Internal Medicine Research Foundation Fellowship, the Killam Postgraduate Scholarship, Ross Stewart Smith Memorial Fellowship in Medical Research, and the Clinician Investigator Program Graduate Stipend (all from Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine), a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship (CIHR-FRN# 171259), and through the Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars Program (National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse; R25DA033211). No other competing interests were declared.

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