Why and how to increase dietary potassium intake

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 245-254

  Siani, A ^a   Strazzullo, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

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