Dissidents and dietary sodium: concerns about the commentary by O'Donnell et al.

Int J Epidemiol

Departments of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, and Physiology and Pharmacology, O'Brien Institute of Public Health and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta at the University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Published: February 2017

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