Risk factors for acute myocardial infarction in Indians: a case-control study.

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Published in Lancet on August 10, 1996

Authors

P Pais1, J Pogue, H Gerstein, E Zachariah, D Savitha, S Jayprakash, P R Nayak, S Yusuf

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1: Department of Medicine, St John's Medical College, Bangalore, India.

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