Left atrial size and the risk of stroke and death. The Framingham Heart Study.

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Published in Circulation on August 15, 1995

Authors

E J Benjamin1, R B D'Agostino, A J Belanger, P A Wolf, D Levy

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1: Framingham Heart Study, MA 01701, USA.

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