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Epidemiology of Atherosclerotic Heart Diseases

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Arterial Pollution

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Epidemiological studies of atherosclerotic heart diseases are concerned with the patterns of the occurrence of these diseases in human populations.

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  1. National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium

    Guy G. De Backer (Senior Research Associate)

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  1. Institute for Medical Biology, Brussels, Belgium

    H. Peeters

  2. The John Bonnett Clinical Labs, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

    G. A. Gresham

  3. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    R. Paoletti

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De Backer, G.G. (1983). Epidemiology of Atherosclerotic Heart Diseases. In: Peeters, H., Gresham, G.A., Paoletti, R. (eds) Arterial Pollution. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 58. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4457-5_10

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