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Community-based lifestyle interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes. Satterfield DW, Volansky M, Caspersen CJ, et al. Past research in this area has used a paradigm that confounds the self/other dimension with the individual aggregate dimension, making it difficult to determine which alternative is correct.

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