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Lipid Lowering Drugs: What is Their Place in Therapeutics?

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of New South Wales and Lipid Clinic, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia

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Simons, L. Lipid Lowering Drugs: What is Their Place in Therapeutics?. Drugs 17, 501–506 (1979). https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-197917060-00006

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