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DIABETES MELLITUS PREVALENCE AMONG TRADITIONAL ROMA WOMEN IN SERBIA: RESPONSE TO ČVOROVIČ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2019

Marisa A. Nunes
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Motol, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Brož*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Motol, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
*
*Corresponding author. Email: zorb@seznam.cz

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