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- 1990
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- article
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- 264
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- 3
- Pages
- 359-365
- Citations
- 600
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John W. Farquhar
(1990).
Effects of communitywide education on cardiovascular disease risk factors. The Stanford Five-City Project.
JAMA
, 264
(3)
, 359-365.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.264.3.359
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- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.264.3.359