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Edited by Kenneth Wachter, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and approved April 4, 2012 (received for review April 19, 2011)
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- Published in issue May 29, 2012.
- Published first May 14, 2012.
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- aCentre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, and
- dSwedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;
- bDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; and
- cSwedish National Institute of Public Health, 831 40 Östersund, Sweden
Edited by Kenneth Wachter, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and approved April 4, 2012 (received for review April 19, 2011)
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↵1A.C.J.L. and J.T. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: anton.lager{at}chess.su.se.
Author contributions: A.C.J.L. and J.T. designed research, performed research, contributed analytic tools, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
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