Preventive coronary interventions for women

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-6

  Wenger, Nanette K ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BODY FAT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORONARY RISK; EXERCISE; HEART INFARCTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED STATES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0030033755     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199601000-00002     Document Type: Review

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