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Editorial
. 2023 Apr 4;20(4):e1004229.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004229. eCollection 2023 Apr.

Multimorbidity: Addressing the next global pandemic

PLOS Medicine Editors
Editorial

Multimorbidity: Addressing the next global pandemic

PLOS Medicine Editors. PLoS Med. .
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The authors’ individual competing interests are at http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/s/staff-editors. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal). Till Bärnighausen is the Academic Editor-in-chief of PLOS Medicine.

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