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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The MACARENHA connection: a holistic approach to understand and fight the cardiometabolic epidemics that ravage Mexico]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La conexión MACARENHA: un enfoque holístico para entender y combatir las epidemias cardiometabólicas que asolan México]]></article-title>
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