Authors' Reply to Gachi, Mullie and Colleagues, and Weatherburn

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2016 Mar 4

PMID 26936855

Authors

Cuilin Zhang

Wei Bao

Deirdre K Tobias

Jorge E Chavarro

Frank B Hu

Affiliations

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