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Journal of Primary Health Care Journal of Primary Health Care Society
Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Will increasing the amount of fibre in your diet help prevent cardiovascular disease?

Vanessa Jordan
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New Zealand Cochrane Fellow, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Email: v.jordan@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 8(1) 82-82 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC15901
Published: 31 March 2016

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2016.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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[3]  Hartley L, et al. Dietary fibre for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2016(1).