Bio-psychosocial determinants of cardiovascular disease in a rural population on Crete, Greece: Formulating a hypothesis and designing the SPILI-III study

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Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lionis, Christos ^a   Anyfantakis, Dimitrios ^a   Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K ^a   Shea, Sue ^a,b   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes ^c   Castanas, Elias ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

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EID: 77957689337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-258     Document Type: Article

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