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Letter to the Editor
Serum leptin concentration in heart failure patients: does the literature reflect reality?
a 1st Department of Cardiology, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
b Athens University ICU, Agioi Anargyroi Hospital, Athens, Greece
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