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CLimate Impacts on Myocardial infarction deaths in the Athens TErritory: the CLIMATE study
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- Published on: 7 February 2007
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Dear Editor,
We read with great interest the very important article by Dilaveris et al about the climate impacts on myocardial infarction deaths in Athens, Greece [1]. Several reports have already proved that the number of deaths related to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) shows a seasonal variation, with a peak in winter, and a lowest number of mortality rates during the months of summer [2,3,4]. The effects o...
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