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05-09-2018 | Diet | Review | Article

Nutrition and diabetes in South Asia

Journal: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Authors: Hema S Gopalan, Anoop Misra, Ranil Jayawardena

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK

Abstract

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