JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 604-606 , November 2007

Prevalence of Adequate and of Optimal Control of Serum Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in an Academic Nursing Home

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 None of the authors have any conflicts of interest pertaining to this study.

PII: S1525-8610(07)00352-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2007.08.001

JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 9 , Pages 604-606 , November 2007

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