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journal_name
Eur J Epidemioljournal_title
European journal of epidemiologyauthors
Wändell P,Carlsson AC,Li X,Gasevic D,Ärnlöv J,Holzmann MJ,Sundquist J,Sundquist Kdoi
10.1007/s10654-017-0283-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-09-01 00:00:00pages
785-796issue
9eissn
0393-2990issn
1573-7284pii
10.1007/s10654-017-0283-6journal_volume
32pub_type
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