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Editorial
. 2022 Sep 28;9(10):1491.
doi: 10.3390/children9101491.

Non-Communicable Diseases and Rare Diseases: A Current and Future Public Health Challenge within Pediatrics

Valeria Calcaterra  1   2 , Gianvincenzo Zuccotti  2   3
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Editorial

Non-Communicable Diseases and Rare Diseases: A Current and Future Public Health Challenge within Pediatrics

Valeria Calcaterra et al. Children (Basel). .

Abstract

The global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and rare diseases constitutes a current and future public health challenge within pediatrics [...].

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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