Concurrent Morning Increase in Platelet Aggregability and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 316, Issue 24, 1987, Pages 1514-1518

  Tofler, Geoffrey H ^a   Brezinski, Damian ^a   Schafer, Andrew I ^a   Czeisler, Charles A ^a   Rutherford, John D ^a   Willich, Stefan N ^a   Gleason, Ray E ^a   Williams, Gordon H ^a   Muller, James E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; FATALITY; HEART; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

EID: 0023228517     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198706113162405     Document Type: Article

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