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Association of thyroid nodules with adiposity: a community-based cross-sectional study in China

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12902-018-0232-8

Published Online: 2018-01-27

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Song, Bin

Zuo, Zhihua

Tan, Juan

Guo, Jianjin

Teng, Weiping

Lu, Yibing https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0018-4714
Liu, Chao
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

the International Cooperation Foundation of the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China (2009)

the Key Research and Development Project of Jiangsu Provinc (BE2015723)

the Foundation of Jiangsu Subei People's Hospital (yzucms201204)
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Article History

Received: 10 August 2017

Accepted: 19 January 2018

First Online: 27 January 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the medical ethics committee of China Medical University (serial number: IRB [2008]34). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.

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