García LS

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 151-153
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ABSTRACT

It is well known that having a cardiac disease it is related by having many risk factors, specially for acute coronary syndromes. These risk factors can be certificated by variables or non variables. The most of theses factors depends of life style, the diet, physical activity, smoking and changing that would represents a very important fact for developing cardiac disease.

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