Relationship of soft drink consumption to global overweight, obesity, and diabetes: a cross-national analysis of 75 countries.

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Published in Am J Public Health on March 14, 2013

Authors

Sanjay Basu1, Martin McKee, Gauden Galea, David Stuckler

Author Affiliations

1: Sanjay Basu is with the Department of Medicine, Prevention Research Center and Centers for Health Policy, Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Martin McKee is with the Department of Public Health and Policy and the European Center for Health of Societies in Transition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Gauden Galea is with the Division of Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. David Stuckler is with the Department of Sociology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

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