Comparison of carvedilol and metoprolol on clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure in the Carvedilol Or Metoprolol European Trial (COMET): randomised controlled trial.

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Published in Lancet on July 05, 2003

Authors

Philip A Poole-Wilson1, Karl Swedberg, John G F Cleland, Andrea Di Lenarda, Peter Hanrath, Michel Komajda, Jacobus Lubsen, Beatrix Lutiger, Marco Metra, Willem J Remme, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Armin Scherhag, Allan Skene, Carvedilol Or Metoprolol European Trial Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK. p.poole-wilson@imperial.ac.uk

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