Seven reflections on a first episode of lone atrial fibrillation;Siete reflexiones sobre un primer episodio de fibrilación auricular solitaria

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1093-1095

  Farré, Jerónimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DICOUMAROL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTICOAGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHROMOSOME 10Q; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EDITORIAL; EMBOLISM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33846520681     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13095776     Document Type: Editorial

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