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Functional ability and nutritional status of free-living elderly people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Mary C. Manandhar
Mary C. Manandhar
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Human Nutrition Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BT
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , November 1995 , pp. 677 - 691
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