Dietary meat fats and burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors, in the elderly: a report from the MEDIS study.

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Published in Lipids Health Dis on March 18, 2010

Authors

Evangelos Polychronopoulos1, George Pounis, Vassiliki Bountziouka, Akis Zeimbekis, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Brikena-Eirini Qira, Efthimios Gotsis, George Metallinos, Christos Lionis, Demosthenes Panagiotakos

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Nutrition Science - Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. evpol@hua.gr

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