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Editorial
. 2014 Sep;12(9):1569-71.
doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2014.04.015. Epub 2014 Apr 24.

Coffee: a panacea or snake oil for the liver?

Radhika Kumari  1 , W Ray Kim  1
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Editorial

Coffee: a panacea or snake oil for the liver?

Radhika Kumari et al. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014 Sep.
No abstract available

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