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Table of Content - Volume 12 Issue 3 - December 2018


 

Study of correlation between serum vit-B12 and homocysteine levels with ischemic heart disease

 

Shilpa Shaunak Sule1*, N C Edul2, R S Wadia3

 

1Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University)Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA.

2Senior Consultant, 3Senior Physician and Neurologist Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Ruby Hall Clinic , Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA.

Email: docshilpa84@gmail.com

 

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