Roundtable discussion| Volume 102, ISSUE 8, P1046-1055, October 15, 2008

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The Editor's Roundtable: Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs and Cardiovascular Risk

  • Vincent E. Friedewald Jr.
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    Corresponding author: Tel: 512-264-1611; fax 512-264-7034
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    Assistant Editor, The American Journal of Cardiology, Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, and Research Professor, College of Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
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  • Joel S. Bennett
    Affiliations
    Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pharmacology, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • Milton Packer
    Affiliations
    Gayle and Paul Stoffel Distinguished Chair in Cardiology, Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
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  • William C. Roberts
    Affiliations
    Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Cardiology and Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Executive Director, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, and Dean, A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, Texas
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  • Gary W. Williams
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    Chairman, Department of Medicine, Immediate Past Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, and Vice President, Medicine Services, Scripps Clinic Foundation, La Jolla, California
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