The Real Contribution of the Major Risk Factors to the Coronary Epidemics
- 10 December 2001
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 161 (22) , 2657-2660
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.161.22.2657
Abstract
The prevention and control of coronary heart disease (CHD) remains one of the world's great public health challenges. Coronary heart disease is the leading causThis publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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