Liver and Gallbladder Disease in Diabetes
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Dr. Constance E. Ruhl is an Epidemiologist at Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. Dr. Jeanne M. Clark is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Dr. James E. Everhart was Chief of the Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Branch in the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD, at the time this work was done.
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