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Takahiro Yoshizaki1, Junko Ishihara2, Ayaka Kotemori3

  • 1Department of Food and Life Sciences, Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Toyo University.

Journal of Epidemiology
|January 16, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
Okinawan vegetablecardiovascular diseasecohort study

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