Cardiovascular risk reduction in African Americans: Current concepts and controversies
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Received: 4 December 2015 Accepted: 8 April 2016 c © 2016 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Ferdinand K. Cardiovascular risk reduction in African Americans: Current concepts and controversies, Global Cardiology Science and Practice 2016:2 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2016.2 Review article
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دوره 2016 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016