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Collecting Saliva and Measuring Salivary Cortisol and Alpha-amylase in Frail Community Residing Older Adults via Family Caregivers

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Marcelo Zylberman¹, Florencia Arcondo, Andrea Odzak

¹División Clínica Médica, Hospital General de Agudos Dr. Cosme Argerich, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

|September 5, 2014

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