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Role of trace elements in coronary heart disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Meira Fields
Meira Fields
Affiliation:
Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , February 1999 , pp. 85 - 86
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999

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