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. 1997 Apr;51(2):132–133. doi: 10.1136/jech.51.2.132

Stroke mortality--secular and geographic trends: comment on papers by Maheswaran and colleagues.

S Ebrahim 1
PMCID: PMC1060433  PMID: 9196640

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