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1From Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Peking, China (Y.J., M.L., Y.S., L.W., H.Z., H.W.); and Division of Cardiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong (J.P.S., C.-m.Y.).
Circulation
|June 3, 2015
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