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Christopher Murray,
Alan D López
(1997).
Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study.
The Lancet
, 349
(9061)
, 1269-1276.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(96)07493-4
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- 10.1016/s0140-6736(96)07493-4