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Editorial: Micronutrients and metabolic diseases - volume II
Jinhui Li1, Aimin Yang2, Yongting Luo3
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Frontiers in Nutrition
|January 28, 2026
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