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Kenneth J Mukamal1, Eric B Rimm1, Meir J Stampfer2
1Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
European Journal of Epidemiology
|June 13, 2020
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