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P Kugathasan1,2, B Stubbs3,4, J Aagaard1,2

  • 1Psychiatry, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|July 30, 2019
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Keywords:
clinical aspectscomorbiditymortalityphysical healthphysical illness

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