Cocoa Flavanol Supplementation and Exercise: A Systematic Review

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Sports Medicine

• Publication date

  2018-01-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1007/s40279-017-0849-1PMID 29299877
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