Reducing Cardiovascular Mortality Through Tobacco Control: A World Heart Federation Roadmap.
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Alice Grainger Gasser, Cassandra Welch, Monika Arora, and Eduardo Bianco have worked on projects funded by pharmaceutical companies producing medication for tobacco dependence treatment. The remaining authors report no relationships that could be construed as a conflict of interest. From the *World Heart Federation, Geneva, Switzerland; yCWJ Consulting, Nairobi, Kenya; zPublic Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India; xHeart Foundation, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; kWorld Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; {University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and the #Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), and The Center for Research on the Tobacco Epidemic (CIET), Montevideo, Uruguay. Correspondence: A. Grainger Gasser (alice. graingergasser@ worldheart.org).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Global heart
دوره 10 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015