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Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt1

  • 1Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism of Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands. markenlichtenbelt@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
|October 6, 2012
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