Coronary Artery Disease — WENBIT - Western Norway B Vitamin Intervention Trial
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B-Vitamin Treatment Trialists' Collaboration Homocysteine-lowering trials for prevention of cardiovascular events: a review of the design and power of the large randomized trials. Am Heart J. 2006 Feb;151(2):282-7. Review.
Ulvik B, Nygård O, Hanestad BR, Wentzel-Larsen T, Wahl AK Associations between disease severity, coping and dimensions of health-related quality of life in patients admitted for elective coronary angiography - a cross sectional study. Health Qual Life Ou
Ulvik B, Wentzel-Larsen T, Hanestad BR, Omenaas E, Nygård OK Relationship between provider-based measures of physical function and self-reported health-related quality of life in patients admitted for elective coronary angiography. Heart Lung. 2006 Mar-A
A Randomised Double Blind Study of the Effects of Homocysteine Lowering Therapy on Mortality and Cardiac Events in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography
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