We report a 10-year longitudinal follow-up study of 431 unaffected relatives of patients
with either familial or nonfamilial idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC).
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Publication history
Accepted:
February 20,
2003
Received in revised form:
February 20,
2003
Received:
December 11,
2002
Footnotes
This work was supported by a grant from the American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas.
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© 2003 Excerpta Medica Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
