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. 1994 Aug;72(2 Suppl):S36–S39. doi: 10.1136/hrt.72.2_suppl.s36

Symptoms and quality of life in heart failure: the muscle hypothesis

Andrew J S Coats 1, Andrew L Clark 1, Massimo Piepoli 1, Maurizio Volterrani 1, Philip A Poole-Wilson 1
PMCID: PMC1025572  PMID: 7946756

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