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Elizabeth Arias1, Jiaquan Xu, Melissa A Jim

  • 1Elizabeth Arias and Jiaquan Xu are with the Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD. Melissa A. Jim is with the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

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