N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and cardiac mortality

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 246-251

  Singleton, Cameron B ^a   Walker, B D ^b   Campbell, T J ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; REVIEW;

EID: 0034078734     PISSN: 00048291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2000.tb00815.x     Document Type: Review

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