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Exercise Is Medicine: Primary Care Counseling on Aerobic Fitness and Muscle Strengthening

Casey Crump, Kristina Sundquist, Jan Sundquist and Marilyn A. Winkleby
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2019, 32 (1) 103-107; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2019.01.180209
Casey Crump
From Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (CC, KS, JS); Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (KS, JS); Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (MAW).
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Kristina Sundquist
From Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (CC, KS, JS); Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (KS, JS); Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (MAW).
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Jan Sundquist
From Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (CC, KS, JS); Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (KS, JS); Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (MAW).
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Marilyn A. Winkleby
From Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (CC, KS, JS); Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (KS, JS); Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (MAW).
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