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Basic to the treatment of a disease is an understanding of its natural history. The natural history studies available in asymptomatic coronary artery disease are limited; they will be summarized briefly before consideration of specific medical recommendations. Special attention will be directed toward those studies in which silent myocardial ischemia was documented in the asymptomatic population.
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Cohn, P.F., Brown, E.J., Cohn, J.K. (1984). Recommendations for Medical Treatment of Asymptomatic Coronary Artery Disease. In: Rutishauser, W., Roskamm, H. (eds) Silent Myocardial Ischemia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69589-6_28
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