Indications for cholesterol-lowering medication: comparison of risk-assessment methods
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 353 (9149) , 278-281
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(98)04027-6
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