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Source: Scheidtmann K, et ad. Lancet. 2001;358:787-790. IN ADDITION TO THE OMINOUS IMPACT OF stroke mortality in our nation (no.3 cause of death), many at-risk individuals view the specter of [...]

Source: Linder JA, Stafford RS. JAMA. 2001;286:1181-1186. DESPITE THE FACT THAT A DIVERSITY of suggested management plans for acute upper respiratory infections abounds, clinicians often use methods that reflect practice [...]

Source: Lapostolle F, et al. N Engi J Med. 2001;345:779-783. THE RELATIVE IMMOBILITY ASSOCI-ted with air travel has long been suspected as causative in some cases of pulmonaly embolism (PE), [...]

Source: Lieberman DA, Weiss DG. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:555-560. FECAL OCCULT-BLOOD TESTING (FOBT) and sigmoidoscopy (SIGM), alone or in combination, have been shown to reduce colorectal cancer (CCA) mortality. [...]

Source: Villareal DT, et al. JAMA. 2001;286:815-820. THE ROLE OF ESTROGEN AND PROG-esterone replacement (HRT) for osteoporosis (OSPS) prevention is well established. Most data have accrued from relatively younger women, [...]

Source: Martell N, Luque M. J Clin Hypertens. 2001;3:218-223. IN MIDDLE AGE AND BEYOND, BOTH hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) become increasingly common. Treatment of normotensive BPH patients can [...]

Source: Stiell IG, et al. Lancet. 2001; 357:1391-1396. MINOR HEAD INJURY (MHI), DEfined as injuries associated with loss of consciousness, amnesia, or disorientation, and a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score [...]

Source: Sacco RL, et al. JAMA. 2001; 285:2729-2735. THE LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN cholesterol and CHD end points has not been clearly established with stroke. On the other hand, use of [...]

Source: Grandi AM, et al. Am J Hypertens. 2001;14:644-648. NORMAL URINARY ALBUMIN EXCREtion does not exceed 30 mg/24 h. Microalbuminuria (MAU), defined as 30-300 mg/24 h albumin excretion, is seen [...]

Source: Nadelman RB, et al. N Engi J Med. 2001;345:79-84. THOUGH LYME DISEASE MAY BE PRE-vented by vaccination, the cost and need for multiple doses are substantial obstacles to implementation, [...]

Source: Glassman AH, et al. Lancet. 2001;357:1929-1932. IT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY NOTED THAT persons attending smoking-cessation clinics have a statistically greater frequency of past episodes of depression than nonsmoking comparators. [...]

Source: Gage BF, et al. JAMA. 2001; 285:2864-2870. HYPERTENSION 15 RESPONSIBLE FOR the highest attributable stroke risk, but of individual risk factors, atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most potent. Since [...]

Source: Welliver R, et al. JAMA. 2001;285:748-754. THE RAPID SPREAD OF INFLUENZA TO family contacts is a prominent source of community virus dissemination. There is some information that first-genera tion [...]

Source: Breddin HK, et al. N Engl J Med. 2001;344:626-631. LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN (LMWH) has been found to be as useful as traditional unfractionated heparin (HEP) for early management [...]

Source: Meagher EA, et al. JAMA. 2001;285:1178-1182. THERE IS MUCH DEBATE ABOUT THE perceived potential benefit of antioxidant therapies, including vitamin E, upon cardiovascular, oncologic, and neurologic end points. Oxidized [...]

Source: Cutter CB. JAm Board Fam Pract. 2001;14:22-32. TESTOSTERONE REPLACEMENT IN hypogonadal men currently depends primarily on either intramuscular injection or transcutaneous patches; neither of these methods is fully satisfactory [...]

Source: Robinson AR, Mladenovic J. Am J Med. 2001;110:88-90. EVALUATION OF RED BLOOD CELL (RBC) macrocytosis typically includes measurement of serum folate. Serum folate, however, is an inconsistent reflection of [...]

Source: Rodriguez C, et al. JAMA. 2001;285:1460-1465. THE PREPONDERANCE OF EPIDEMIO-logic data associates both endometrial and breast cancer with postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy (ERT). The relationship of ovarian cancer to [...]

Source: Mandell JS, et al. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1603-1607. A5 DEMONSTRATED BY BOTH RAN-domized and observational studies, the mortality rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) is reduced by fecal occult [...]

Source: Meza JP, Webster DS. Am J Manag Care 2000;6:1297-1300. S00TH AND SUCCESSFUL FUNCTIONing of clinical care depends upon appropriately informing patients of laboratory test results. In recent studies, less [...]

Source: Kreis SR, et al. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management 2000;7(12):33-37. OPTIMUM TREATMENT FOR ACUTE exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (AECB) remains a matter of heated debate. Because AECB are common [...]

Source: Johnston SC, et al. JAMA 2000;284:2901-2906. SHORT-TERM OUTCOME AFTER TRANsient ischemic attack (TIA) has been a topic investigated in only a few settings. Confirmation of TIA diagnosis may be [...]

Source: Smith SD, et al. JAMA 2001;285:324-328. BLADDER CANCER ACCOUNTS FOR more than 10,000 deaths annually in the United States. Recently, survivin (SVN), a dysregulator of apoptosis, has been implicated [...]

Source: Kannus P, et al. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1506-1513. DESPITE ENHANCED PHARMACO-logic therapies for osteoporosis prevention and treatment, hip fractures remain an important individual and public health problem. Since [...]

Source: Wassell JT, et al. JAMA 2000;284:2727-2732. LOW BACK PAIN (LBP) AND ITS CON-sequent disability have been our nation's single largest source of disability dollar expenditure for many years. Numerous [...]

Source: Post WS, et al. Am J Hypertens 2000;13:1168-1172. THE PRESENCE OF LEFT VENTRICULAR hypertrophy (LVH) in patients with hypertension is a marker of high risk. The same is true [...]

Source: Silveira MJ, et al. JAMA 2000;284:2483-2488. END OF LIFE (EOL) DECISIONS MAY include such issues as the right to refuse or withdraw life-sustaining treatment, advance directives, legalized physician-assisted suicide, [...]

Source: Lipton RB, et al. JAMA 2000;284:2599-2605. THERE IS, AS YET, NO CLEARLY defined evidence-based path for best acute management of migraine. Lipton and colleagues describe 'step care' as a [...]

Source: Packard CJ, et al. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1148-1155. THE WEST OF SCOTLAND CORONARY Prevention Study evaluated 6595 men with LDL 174-232 mg/dL without history of myocardial infarction treated [...]

Source: Denke MA, et al. JAMA 2000;284:2740-2747. REDUCTION IN CHOLESTEROL through diet is a tool commonly used in persons who suffer stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), or peripheral vascular events, as [...]

Source: Kim YC. Int J Impot Res 1999;11:343-352. THE ROLE OF TESTOSTERONE IN ACHIEVing and maintaining erections in sexual settings (as opposed to 'central' erections occurring spontaneously in a cyclic [...]

Source: Mulnard RA, et al. JAMA 2000;283:1007-1015. SINCE WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN, and Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk increases with advanced age, the problem occurs with twice the frequency in [...]

Source: Jordan JM, et al. Arch Fam Med 2000;9:143-149. DESPITE EVOLUTION IN ARTHRITIS management tools, arthritis remains the most common cause of disability in persons older than age 65. Using [...]

Source: Treanor JJ, et al. JAMA 2000;283:1016-1024. AGENTS THAT HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO be efficacious only against type A viruses have limited treatment of influenza. The recent introduction of neuraminidase [...]

Source: Griffiths TL, et al. Lancet 2000;355:362-368. THE BENEFIT OF PULMONARY REHABILItation for COPD has been demonstrated in meta-analysis to be beneficial over the short term (i.e., [less than] 6 [...]

Source: Pickering TG, et al. Blood Press Monit 1999;4:333-341. IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR SOME PATIENTS to manifest an elevation of blood pressure only in a medical setting, a circumstance [...]

Source: Rosen RC, et al. Int J Imp at Res 1999;11:319-326. ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION HAS RECEIVED considerable increases in attention by primary care clinicians as awareness of its prevalence, quality of [...]

Source: Seltzer EG, et al. JAMA 2000;283:609-616. A VARIETY OF ANECDOTAL REPORTS suggest that Lyme disease may be associated with long-term sequelae of diverse nature. Connecticut, which requires all Lyme [...]