Rebuttal to: Passive Smoking Adversely Affects the Haemostasis/Fibrinolytic Parameters in Healthy Non-smoker Offspring of Healthy Smokers

K. W. E. Denson

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1615672

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 2001; 85(04): 754-755
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1615672

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Rebuttal to: Passive Smoking Adversely Affects the Haemostasis/Fibrinolytic Parameters in Healthy Non-smoker Offspring of Healthy Smokers

K. W. E. Denson

¹Thame Thrombosis and Haemostasis Research Foundation, Thame, Oxon, UK

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