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Copper Nutriture, a Hidden Variable in Cardiovascular Epidemiology

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A commentary on Bowen et al.’s Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease—an Update: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11883-018-0704-3.

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Klevay, L.M. Copper Nutriture, a Hidden Variable in Cardiovascular Epidemiology. Curr Atheroscler Rep 21, 24 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11883-019-0785-7

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