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Acknowledgements

Research was supported by "N. Paulescu" Institute of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases" Bucharest, University of Medicine "Carol Davila" Bucharest and Foundation for Healthy Nutrition. A part of this study was supported by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research as a part of the PNCDI 2 program DIADIPOHEP 41-008/2007. Also, no other persons but the mentioned authors participated in the writing and conception of this article. The article was not published or submitted to other journals. Author Gabriela Radulian participated in collection of data and drafted the manuscript. The other authors also collected information and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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