Beta blockers prevent cardiac death following a myocardial infarction: So why are so many infarct survivors discharged without beta blockers?
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Cardiology
- Vol. 78 (7), 821-822
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9149(96)00428-6
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