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Letter to the Editor

Response to letter to the editor “Statin use in patients with diabetes: one drug, multiple benefits”

Salam Khalila Department of family medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
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M. Chadi Alraiesb Detroit Heart Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Page 929 | Published online: 26 Dec 2019

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