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Research Article

Persons with Screening-detected Haemochromatosis: as Healthy as the General Population?

A. Åsberg
,
K. Hveem
,
Ø. Krüger
&
K. S. Bjerve
Pages 719-724 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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