Prevalence of and contributing factors to dyslipidaemia in low-income women aged 18-90 years in the peri-urban Vaal region
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2013;26(1) S Afr J Clin Nutr Oldewage-Theron WH, PhD, Director; Egal AA, PhD, Senior Researcher Centre of Sustainable Livelihoods,Vaal University of Technology, Vanderbijlpark Correspondence to: Wilna Oldewage-Theron, e-mail: [email protected]
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