Heart failure: Diagnosis and healthcare burden

Clinical Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-18

  Dayer, Mark ^b   Cowie, Martin R ^a,b  

^a Department of Cardiology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 1342311907     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-1-13     Document Type: Review

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