Leisure time spent sitting in relation to total mortality in a prospective cohort of US adults.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on July 22, 2010

Authors

Alpa V Patel1, Leslie Bernstein, Anusila Deka, Heather Spencer Feigelson, Peter T Campbell, Susan M Gapstur, Graham A Colditz, Michael J Thun

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1: Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA. alpa.patel@cancer.org

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