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Overweight and Increased Cardiovascular Mortality. No French Paradox

Frank B. Hu^*

From the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: frank.hu{at}channing.harvard.edu.

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