Correction: The Effect of Rural-to-Urban Migration on Obesity and Diabetes in India: A Cross-Sectional Study
Shah Ebrahim,Sanjay Kinra,Liza Bowen,Elizabeth Andersen,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Tanica Lyngdoh,Lakshmy Ramakrishnan,R.C. Ahuja,Prashant P. Joshi,S. Mohan Das,Murali Mohan,George Davey Smith,Dorairaj Prabhakaran,K. Srinath Reddy +13 more
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TL;DR: The Academic Editor providing expert input on this paper was Peter Byass, Umea Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, U mea University, Sweden.
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Abstract: [This corrects the article on p. e1000268 in vol. 7.].
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