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Correction: Effect of body mass index on survival after spinal cord injury
Nader Fallah1,2, Vanessa K Noonan1, Nancy P Thorogood1
1Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Frontiers in Neurology
|December 1, 2025
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1269030.].
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