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Comment
. 2018 May;20(5):976-977.
doi: 10.1111/jch.13267. Epub 2018 Mar 30.

PURE is not so pure when it comes to dietary sodium and cardiovascular events!

Zeid J Khitan  1 , Murad M Kheetan  2 , Joseph I Shapiro  1
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PURE is not so pure when it comes to dietary sodium and cardiovascular events!

Zeid J Khitan et al. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2018 May.
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