The role of fish oil in hypertension

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 533-538

  Yang, Hagen ^a   Kenny, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION;

ANIMALS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 35348886050     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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