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. 2024 Dec;54(12):3215-3216.
doi: 10.1007/s40279-024-02117-x. Epub 2024 Sep 24.

Comment on: "Premature Death in Bodybuilders: What Do We Know?"

Yu-Shan Hsieh  1   2 , Yan-Yu Lin  3
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Comment on: "Premature Death in Bodybuilders: What Do We Know?"

Yu-Shan Hsieh et al. Sports Med. 2024 Dec.
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Declarations. Funding: No sources of funding were used to assist in the preparation of this letter. Conflicts of Interest/Competing Interests: Yu-Shan Hsieh and Yan-Yu Lin have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this letter. Author Contributions: Yan-Yu Lin provided comments on and revised the first draft. Yu-Shan Hsieh wrote the first draft of the letter and wrote the final version. All authors read and approved the final version.

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