Vegetarianism, coronary risk factors and coronory heart disease

Vegetarian Nutrition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 33-54

  Key, Timothy J ^b   Appleby, Paul N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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