Socioeconomic and ethnic differences in use of lipid-lowering drugs after deregulation of simvastatin in the UK: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study.

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Published in Atherosclerosis on December 21, 2010

Authors

Ian Forde1, Tarani Chandola, Rosalind Raine, Michael G Marmot, Mika Kivimaki

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL,1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. i.forde@ucl.ac.uk

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