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Food insecurity and social support in Brazil

Author’s Contributions
C.N.F: Conceptualization, Investigation, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Writing – Original Draft and Funding
Acquisition. G.M.S and L.M.H: Investigation and Writing – Review and editing. F.S.A.B and T.R.P.B: Formal Analysis,
Methodology and Writing – Review and editing. L.P.C: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision,
Funding Acquisition and, Writing – Review and editing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Ethics Statement
This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medical Sciences – University of Campinas,
under the protocol 95607018.8.0000.5404 following the Declaration of Helsinki.
Availability of Supporting Data

The datasets on which the conclusions of this manuscript rely on are not available publicly. The datasets used and/or
analyzed during the current study are available from corresponding author, on reasonable request.

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