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Exercise training and smoking cessation as the cornerstones of managing claudication

S K Christman1, K Ahijevych, J Buckworth

  • 1Department of Nursing, Cedarville University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
|June 23, 2001
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