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M Vogelzang, T Svilaas, I C C van der Horst

    Netherlands Heart Journal : Monthly Journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation
    |February 20, 2015
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    glucosehyperglycaemiainsulinmyocardial infarction

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