Diet intervention to improve cardiovascular risk factors among Iranian postmenopausal women

Nutrition Research and Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 522-527

  Abedi, Parvin ^a   Lee, Mary Huang Soo ^b   Kandiah, Mirnalini ^b   Yassin, Zaitun ^b   Shojaeezade, Davood ^c   Hosseini, Mostafa ^c   Malihi, Reza ^a  

^a AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Diet intervention; Postmenopausal women

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953274043     PISSN: 19761457     EISSN: 20056168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4162/nrp.2010.4.6.522     Document Type: Article

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