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  1. Department of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, Vienna, Austria

    Moritz Oberndorfer

  2. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Moritz Oberndorfer

  3. Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Alberta Health Services. Holy Cross Centre, 2210-2nd Street SW., Box ACB, AB. T2S 3C3, Calgary, Canada

    Lin Yang PhD

  4. Preventive Oncology & Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Lin Yang PhD

  5. Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Lin Yang PhD & Thomas Waldhoer PhD

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Oberndorfer, M., Yang, L. & Waldhoer, T. Is the full moon fooling us?. Wien Klin Wochenschr 134, 799–801 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-022-02083-2

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