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04-14-2008, 09:30 AM
Washington, April 14 : A special report on the health conditions in Cuba during the "Special Period"-the period of economic and social hardship that the country experienced after the collapse of the Soviet Union-highlights the association between sustained population-wide weight loss and a decline in mortality rates from all causes.

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