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- 2004
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- 363
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- 9422
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- 1724-1727
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- 444
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Debbie A. Lawlor,
George Davey Smith,
K. Richard Bruckdorfer
et al.
(2004).
Those confounded vitamins: what can we learn from the differences between observational versus randomised trial evidence?.
The Lancet
, 363
(9422)
, 1724-1727.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(04)16260-0
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- 10.1016/s0140-6736(04)16260-0