Obesity and overweight in relation to organ-specific cancer mortality in London (UK): findings from the original Whitehall study.

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Published in Int J Obes (Lond) on October 01, 2005

Authors

G D Batty1, M J Shipley, R J Jarrett, E Breeze, M G Marmot, G Davey Smith

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1: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, UK. david-b@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk

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