Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?

Meir Stampfer

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0020181

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Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?

Meir Stampfer

Weight Loss and Mortality: What Does the Evidence Show?

Meir Stampfer

Published: June 28, 2005
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020181

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Meir Stampfer

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