Correction: Underweight, Markers of Cachexia, and Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Cohort Study of Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries
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This article was republished on May 19th, 2016 to correct poor figure quality in the PDF version, which was introduced during the typesetting process. [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001998.].
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دوره 13 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016