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Areca nut chewing and dependency syndrome: Is the dependence comparable to smoking? a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: Areca nut is the seed of fruit oriental palm known as Areca catechu. Many adverse effects of nut chewing have been well documented in the medical literature. As these nuts are mixed with some other substances like tobacco and flavouring agents, it has been hypothesized that it might also...

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Autores principales: Mirza, Saira S, Shafique, Kashif, Vart, Priya, Arain, Moin I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21851600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-6-23