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Excessive amounts of salt consumption and atheroma formation among patients awaiting coronary-artery-bypass-grafting at a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka
2020-09-29
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<h4>Background: </h4> Ischemic Heart Disease(IHD) characterized by atheroma formation, is a leading contributor for the rising disease burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in Sri Lanka. Even though excessive salt-consumption has been attributed with hypertension, documented literature is scarce on exploring its direct association with atheroma formation with primary data. Coronary-Artery- Bypass-Grafting(CA...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6d0e3f90-5d95-5daa-b05d-d8ee70170936
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-82633/v1
