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. 2003 Oct;111(13):A684–A685. doi: 10.1289/ehp.111-a684

Obesity in the 21st century.

Maida P Galvez, Thomas R Frieden, Philip J Landrigan
PMCID: PMC1241696  PMID: 14527853

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