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European Heart Journal 2001 22(13):1071-1073; doi:10.1053/euhj.2000.2575
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Wearing your heart in your sleeve?

A.D. Hughes and S. Thom

National Heart & Lung Division, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, U.K.

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