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Patrizia Calella1, Giuliana Valerio2, Matt Thomas3

  • 1Department of Movement Sciences and Wellbeing, Parthenope University, Naples, Italy; Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, UK.

Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
|February 23, 2018
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Keywords:
Body compositionCystic fibrosisDEXALean body massPulmonary function

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