Effective Variations on Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly in a City in West of Turkey (original) (raw)
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2001
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Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2002
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2004
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Clinical Cardiology, 2009
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European Journal of Epidemiology, 2000
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