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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to Mr. Chogninka Roland, which
accepted to undertake blood tests in his Laboratory, and con-
ceded a substantial financial reduction on the real fees. We
thank all the APE teachers who took part in this study, for their
availability. We are also indebted to the managers of the Centre
of Muscular and Cardiovascular Maintenance VITAFORME of
Porto-Novo, for their technical support during data processing
and analysis.
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