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The effects of dietary change on serum cholesterol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

I. U. Haq
Affiliation:
Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF
W. W. Yeo
Affiliation:
Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF
P. R. Jackson
Affiliation:
Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF
L. E. Ramsay
Affiliation:
Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF
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Abstract

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Symposium on ‘Moving points in clinical nutrition’
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1995

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