American Heart Journal
Volume 144, Issue 6 , Pages 1018-1025 , December 2002

Risks and benefits of early treatment of acute myocardial infarction with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor in patients with a history of arterial hypertension: Analysis of the GISSI-3 database

Received 3 April 2001 ,Accepted 4 February 2002.

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☆ Supported by the Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri (ANMCO) and by the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri (IRFMN).

☆☆ *A complete list of collaborators and participating centers appeared in Lancet 1994;343:1115-22.

★ Reprint requests: GISSI Coordinating Centre, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milano, Italy.

★★ E-mail: avanzini@marionegri.it

PII: S0002-8703(02)00226-0

doi: 10.1067/mhj.2002.126739

American Heart Journal
Volume 144, Issue 6 , Pages 1018-1025 , December 2002

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