Acne Vulgaris - A Disease of Western Civilization: About Author
A study by: Loren Cordain, PhD; Staffan Lindeberg, MD,PhD; Magdalena Hurtado, PhD; Kim Hill, PhD; S. Boyd Eaton, MD; Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD
About Author
Accepted for publication March 16, 2002.
Corresponding author: Loren Cordain, PhD, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 (e-mail: cordain@cahs.colostate.edu
).
From the Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins (Dr Cordain); Department of Community Medicine, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden (Dr Lindeberg); Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (Drs Hurtado and Hill), Department of Radiology and Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga (Dr Eaton); and Department of Biochemistry, Human Nutrition Unit, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (Dr Brand-Miller).
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