Low prevalences of coronary heart disease (CHD), psoriasis, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis in Eskimos: Are they caused by high dietary intake of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), a genetic variation of essential fatty acid (EFA) metabolism or a combination of both?
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Medical Hypotheses
- Vol. 22 (4) , 421-428
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9877(87)90037-5
Abstract
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