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What the evidence found 3 findings
Based on 5 sources:
PMC - NIH peer-reviewed View
News Medical news View
PubMed peer-reviewed View
Semantic Scholar peer-reviewed View
Harvard Health institutional View
Based on 8 sources:
PMC (PubMed Central) peer-reviewed View
Science Alert news View
PLOS One peer-reviewed View
PubMed peer-reviewed View
PMC - NIH peer-reviewed View
News Medical news View
ResearchGate peer-reviewed View
Wayne State University institutional View
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Scientific American news View
SQ Online institutional View
BBC news View
University of Texas Think Twice institutional View
Sources 9 findings
2011 Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine argumentation
tree-leaf argumentation
Donald Unger argumentation
2011 Deweber · Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine argumentation
tree-leaf argumentation
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Unger argumentation
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