Pontefract cakes can be bad for you: refractory hypertension and liquorice excess
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Pontefract cakes can be bad for you: refractory hypertension and liquorice excess.
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.1.218