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Can altering carbohydrate, protein and unsaturated fat intake improve patients' blood pressure and lipid profile?

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The synopsis was written by Hannah Camm, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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    Wahida Karmally & Ira J Goldberg

  2. Division of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA

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Karmally, W., Goldberg, I. Can altering carbohydrate, protein and unsaturated fat intake improve patients' blood pressure and lipid profile?. Nat Rev Cardiol 3, 254–255 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio0537

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