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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics--2006 Update. A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

Writing Group Members , Thomas Thom , Nancy Haase , Wayne Rosamond PhD, Virginia J. Howard MSPH, FAHA, John Rumsfeld MD, PhD, FAHA, Teri Manolio MD, PhD, FAHA, Zhi-Jie Zheng MD, PhD, Katherine Flegal PhD, Christopher O’Donnell MD, MPH, FAHA, Steven Kittner MD, Donald Lloyd-Jones MD, David C. Goff Jr MD, PhD, FAHA, Yuling Hong MD, MSC, PhD, FAHA, Members of the Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee , Robert Adams MD, Gary Friday MD, MPH, Karen Furie MD, MPH, Philip Gorelick MD, MPH, Brett Kissela MD, John Marler MD, James Meigs MD, Veronique Roger MD, Stephen Sidney MD, MPH, Paul Sorlie PhD, Julia Steinberger MD, MSC, Sylvia Wasserthiel-Smoller PhD, Matthew Wilson MD, and Philip Wolf MD




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