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Cerebrospinal fluid pressure correlated with body mass index

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Correspondence to Ningli Wang.

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Ruojin Ren and Ningli Wang contributed equally to this work.

This study was sponsored by the S National Natural Science of Foundation of China 30571991, and Beijing Novel Program 2008B45 from Beijing Municipal Science &Technology Commission, China.

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Ren, R., Wang, N., Zhang, X. et al. Cerebrospinal fluid pressure correlated with body mass index. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 250, 445–446 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-011-1746-1

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