The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years.

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Published in N Engl J Med on July 25, 2007

Authors

Nicholas A Christakis1, James H Fowler

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. christakis@hcp.med.harvard.edu

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