Gender differences in mortality and risk factors in a 13-year cohort study of street-recruited injecting drug users.

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Published in BMC Public Health on May 10, 2014

Authors

Linn Gjersing1, Anne Line Bretteville-Jensen

Author Affiliations

1: Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS), PB 565 Sentrum, Oslo 0105, Norway. lg@sirus.no.

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