CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE Predicting sudden death in patients with mild to moderate chronic heart failure
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M T Kearney, K A A Fox, A J Lee, W P Brooksby, A M Shah, A Flapan, R J Prescott, R Andrews, P D Batin, D L Eckberg, N Gall, A G Zaman, H S Lindsay, J Nolan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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