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Preface: A Career in Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease: From Research to Results to Public Health Policy

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Kromhout, D. Preface: A Career in Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease: From Research to Results to Public Health Policy. Public Health Rev 33, 351–362 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391640

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