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  1. Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    F B Ortega, M J Castillo & J R Ruiz

  2. Department of Biosciences and Nutrition at Novum, Unit for Preventive Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

    F B Ortega, J R Ruiz & M Sjöström

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Ortega, F., Castillo, M., Ruiz, J. et al. Response to “Is it possible to determine a ‘powerful marker of health’?”. Int J Obes 32, 1446 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2008.132

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