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Technical comment

Vol. 143 No. 3132 (2013)

Vitamin D deficiency and cardiovascular disease

  • Saeed Ahmed
  • Supawat Ratanapo
  • Wonngarm Kittanamongkolchai
  • Wisit Cheungpasitporn
  • Promporn Suksaranjit
  • Daych Chongnarungsin
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2013.13821
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2013;143:w13821
Published
28.07.2013

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