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Lipid-lowering drugs and mortality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

F. Corrigan*
Affiliation:
Argyll & Bute NHS Trust, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8LD
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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