Environmental Change and Cardiovascular Disease: A New Complexity

Yearbook of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 40, Issue , 1997, Pages 1-24

  Pollard, Tessa M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet; Estrogen; Infection; Modernisation; Sex; Stress; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001985377     PISSN: 0096848X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(1997)25+<1::aid-ajpa1>3.0.co;2-8     Document Type: Article

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