Look After Your Heart programme: impact on health status, exercise knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour of retired women in England.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on April 01, 1994

Authors

L Rowland1, E J Dickinson, P Newman, D Ford, S Ebrahim

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London.

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