American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 5 , Page e33 , May 2009

More antidepressants for African Americans with coronary heart disease? Maybe—maybe not

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 Dr Thombs is supported by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and an Établissement de Jeunes Chercheurs award from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé Québec. Dr Ziegelstein is supported by grant number R24AT004641 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and by the Miller Family Scholar Program.

 The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine or the National Institutes of Health.

PII: S0002-8703(09)00160-4

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.03.005

American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 5 , Page e33 , May 2009

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