"To drink or not to drink" – is this really the question?

Benjamin Brenner

¹Thrombosis and Hemostasis Unit and Recanati Autonomic Dysfunction Center, Rambam Health Care Center and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-IIT, Haifa, Israel

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Giris Jacob

¹Thrombosis and Hemostasis Unit and Recanati Autonomic Dysfunction Center, Rambam Health Care Center and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-IIT, Haifa, Israel

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