Non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: what we know now.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on April 28, 2011

Authors

Shona Dalal1, Juan Jose Beunza, Jimmy Volmink, Clement Adebamowo, Francis Bajunirwe, Marina Njelekela, Dariush Mozaffarian, Wafaie Fawzi, Walter Willett, Hans-Olov Adami, Michelle D Holmes

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. sdalal@hsph.harvard.edu

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