Mediterranean food and diets, global resource for the control of metabolic syndrome and chronic diseases

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 98, Issue , 2008, Pages 150-173

  Urquiaga, Inés ^a   Echeverria, Guadalupe ^a   Polic, Gianna ^a   Castillo, Oscar ^a   Liberona, Yessica ^a   Rozowski, Jaime ^a   Perez, Druso ^a   Martinez, Carlos ^a   Vasquez, Luis ^a   Strobel, Pablo ^a   Mezzano, Diego ^a   Leighton, Federico ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 52949094583     PISSN: 00842230     EISSN: 16623975     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000152985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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