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Screening for risk factors: if you liked it then you should have put a number on it
  1. Robert McCunn,
  2. Tim Meyer
  1. Institute of Sport and Preventive Medicine, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
  1. Correspondence to Robert McCunn, Institute of Sport and Preventive Medicine, Saarland University, Campus Bldg B8.2, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; robert.mccunn{at}uni-saarland.de

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  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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