Lowering homocysteine in patients with ischemic stroke to prevent recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction, and death: the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention (VISP) randomized controlled trial.

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Published in JAMA on February 04, 2004

Authors

James F Toole1, M René Malinow, Lloyd E Chambless, J David Spence, L Creed Pettigrew, Virginia J Howard, Elizabeth G Sides, Chin-Hua Wang, Meir Stampfer

Author Affiliations

1: Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.

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