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Cardiac disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Douglas D Schocken*
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, University of South Florida Health Sciences Center, Tampa, USA
*
Douglas D Schocken, Associate Professor of Medicine, Interim Director, Division of Cardiology, MDC Box 19, 12901 Bruce B Downs Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 33612–4799, USA.

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Clinical geriatrics
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