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This survey was supported by the Grant 108-0000000-0329 from the Ministry of Science of Republic of Croatia, Grant 04/38 Croatian Foundation for Science, and Grant ES-04068 from the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.
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Ivković, V., Karanović, S., Fištrek Prlić, M. et al. Is herbal tea consumption a factor in endemic nephropathy?. Eur J Epidemiol 29, 221–224 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9886-3
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