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Lifestyle of Asian Indians with coronary heart disease: The Australian context

  • Shantala Mohan, MBBS, MPH, PhD Student

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Sydney West Area Health Service, PO Box 63, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
    • ,
  • Lesley Wilkes, PhD, MHPEd

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Sydney West Area Health Service, PO Box 63, Penrith, NSW 2751 & School of Nursing, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 47343 181; fax: +61 2 47343 182.
    • ,
  • Debra Jackson, PhD, MN(Educ), BHSc(Nursing), RN

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia

Received 23 March 2006 ,Revised 30 January 2007 ,Accepted 23 March 2007.

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