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Original Scientific Papers

Lifestyle behaviours predicting major cardiovascular diseases mortality in a practically extinct cohort of middle-aged men followed-up for 61 years

Alessandro Menottia Association for Cardiac Research, Rome, Italy
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Paolo Emilio Puddua Association for Cardiac Research, Rome, Italy;b EA 4650, Signalisation, Électrophysiologie et Imagerie des Lésions d’ischémie Reperfusion Myocardique, UNICAEN, Caen, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Giovina Catastac Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-AN), Rome, Italy
Pages 578-585 | Received 14 Apr 2022, Accepted 11 Jul 2022, Published online: 29 Jul 2022

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