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Food Insecurity Is Associated with Vitamin B12 Deficiency: The All of Us Database

Daniel J. Parente
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2024, 37 (Supplement2) S156-S163; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2023.230454R1

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