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Moatassem S Amer1, Tamer M Farid, Hoda M Farid
1Geriatrics and Gerontology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
|October 22, 2014
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