The obesity epidemic slows among the middle-aged population in Sweden while the socioeconomic gap widens.

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Published in Glob Health Action on December 10, 2010

Authors

Margareta Norberg1, Kristina Lindvall, Hans Stenlund, Bernt Lindahl

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

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