Editorial: Salt: Importance in iodine deficiency and sodium excess

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 599-600

  Yngve, Agneta ^a   Tseng, Marilyn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IODIZED SALT;

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; SALT INTAKE;

HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IODINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 77954191671     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010000728     Document Type: Editorial

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