Ischemic heart disease in women: facts and wishful thinking
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Ischemic heart disease in women: facts and wishful thinking.
s m a p q c c want to share some information on the problem of schemic heart disease in women. Because of a focus on en, this topic has received inadequate attention, and the eneral assumption has been that what is true for men is also rue for women. In this overview, I will try to separate the acts from the wishful thinking that has evolved on this opic, largely due to deficiencies in our know...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.04.012