Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Case for Investing in Circulatory Health – A Global Coalition for Circulatory Health Position Paper
By: The Global Coalition for Circulatory Health, Leslie Rae Ferat, Ryan Forrest, Kawaldip Sehmi, Raul D. Santos, David Stewart, Andrew J. M. Boulton, Beatriz Yáñez Jiménez, Phil Riley, Dylan Burger, Erika S. W. Jones, Maciej Tomaszewski, Maria Rita Milanese, Paul Laffin, Vivekanand Jha, Bettina Borisch, Michael Moore, Fausto J. Pinto, Daniel Piñeiro, Jean-Luc Eiselé, Daniel T. Lackland, Paul K. Whelton, Xin-Hua Zhang, Anna Stavdal, Donald Li, Richard Hobbs, Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, Michael Brainin and Valery Feigin
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1077 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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