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Kenneth Izuora (Medicine), Amalie Alver (Medicine), Arpita Basu (Kinesiology), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Shelley Williams (Dental Medicine) and Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental Medicine) published “The Association of Dietary Micronutrient Intake and Systemic Inflammation among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes…
Warren O. Forbes (Ph.D. 2023, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences - CSU San Bernardino) and Janet S. Dufek (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) recently published a paper titled, "The Influence of Induced Head Acceleration on Lower-Extremity Biomechanics during a Cutting Task," in the Biomedical…

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