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Women and Cardiovascular Disease

What Can Health Care Providers Do to Reduce the Risks?

Paula Miller
North Carolina Medical Journal November 2016, 77 (6) 406-409; DOI: https://doi.org/10.18043/ncm.77.6.406
Paula Miller
clinical associate professor, University of Chapel Hill School of Medicine; director, Women's Heart Program; director, Cardiac Rehabilitation; co-director, Cardiology Clinic, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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