Do not miss the elephant in the room: look at the red blood cells

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Georgios Giannopoulos et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014.

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. 2014 Jun 17;63(23):2588.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.01.077. Epub 2014 Apr 23.

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Silvain J, Collet JP, Montalescot G. Silvain J, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Jun 17;63(23):2588-2589. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.03.029. Epub 2014 Apr 23. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014. PMID: 24768881 No abstract available.

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