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. 2010 Mar 9;121(9):1153-9.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.921544.

Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Working Group on obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in congenital heart disease

Victoria L Pemberton  1 , Brian W McCrindle, Shari Barkin, Stephen R Daniels, Sarah E Barlow, Helen J Binns, Meryl S Cohen, Christina Economos, Myles S Faith, Samuel S Gidding, Caren S Goldberg, Rae-Ellen Kavey, Patricia Longmuir, Albert P Rocchini, Linda Van Horn, Jonathan R Kaltman
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Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Working Group on obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in congenital heart disease

Victoria L Pemberton et al. Circulation. .
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