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European Heart Journal 2002 23(24):1893-1896; doi:10.1053/euhj.2002.3355
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Do statins confer early benefit after acute coronary syndromes? The results from FLORIDA

P. D. Varosya and D. D. Watersb

a Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
b Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

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