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What Your Patients Are Reading: CABG or No, Cognitive Decline Similar Among Heart Patients
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What Your Patients Are Reading: CABG or No, Cognitive Decline Similar Among Heart Patients |
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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/575270?src=rss |
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Late cognitive decline is not related to previous cardiopulmonary bypass in CAD patients, Senator Edward Kennedy has a malignant glioma, moderate alcohol use associated with lower hip-fracture risk, coffee drinkers have lower risk for gout, and alph1-antitrypsin deficiency greatly increases risk for lung cancer. Medscape Medical News |
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Articles > Cardiology |
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May 30, 2008 |
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