Design and current status of ACTION: A Coronary disease Trial Investigating Outcome with Nifedipine GITS. Gastro-Intestinal Therapeutic System.

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Published in Eur Heart J on August 01, 1998

Authors

J Lubsen1, P A Poole-Wilson, S J Pocock, F J van Dalen, J Baumann, B A Kirwan, A B Parker

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1: SOCAR Research SA, Nyon, Switzerland.

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