Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on December 01, 1998

Authors

F A Augustovski1, S B Cantor, C T Thach, S J Spann

Author Affiliations

1: Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Unidad de Medicina Familiar y Preventiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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