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Heart-rate recovery as a clinical marker of cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in diabetic patients

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Larissa, Mezourlo Larissa, Greece, 41110

    Panagiotis Georgoulias & Varvara Valotassiou

  2. Department of Medical Physics, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

    Ioannis Tsougos

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Georgoulias, P., Valotassiou, V. & Tsougos, I. Heart-rate recovery as a clinical marker of cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in diabetic patients. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 36, 320–321 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-008-0982-z

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