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Widowhood and the risk of psychiatric care, psychotropic medication and all-cause mortality: A cohort study of 658,022 elderly people in Sweden

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Pages 259-266 | Received 21 Mar 2010, Accepted 27 Jul 2010, Published online: 06 Dec 2010

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