Metabolic syndrome and risk factors for cardiovascular disease: are nonagenarians protected?
β Scribed by Madlyn I. Frisard; Jennifer C. Rood; Xiaobing Fang; Joseph Su; David A. Welsh; S. Michal Jazwinski; Eric Ravussin; for the Louisiana Healthy Aging Study
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0161-9152
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