Will increasing the amount of fibre in your diet help prevent cardiovascular disease?
Vanessa Jordan
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New Zealand Cochrane Fellow, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Email: v.jordan@auckland.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 8(1) 82-82 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC15901
Published: 31 March 2016
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2016.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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