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Correspondence
The future of cardiac rehabilitation in the UK
  1. Mohammed A Rashid1,2,
  2. David A Wood2
  1. 1General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, UK
  2. 2National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Mohammed A Rashid, General Practice Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN; mar74{at}medschl.cam.ac.uk

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