Internal Medicine Alert – April 30, 2007
April 30, 2007
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Return of the Annual Physical
Recommended periodic preventive services are more likely to be performed through a scheduled screening physical examination or other dedicated preventive visits. -
Hospitalized Smokers: Recidivism Defined
In a group of smokers who were hospitalized with cardiac symptoms, a combination of 12 weeks of behavior modification counseling plus pharmacotherapy resulted in higher tobacco abstinence rates, lower re-hospitalization rates, and markedly reduced mortality rates compared with usual care over two years of follow-up. -
Losing Weight from A to Z (Atkins to Zone Diets) in Women: Where is the Data?
When compared to The Zone, Ornish, or LEARN diets, the very low carbohydrate diet (Atkins), showed that premenopausal, overweight, and obese women lost more weight and had the most beneficial metabolic effects at 12 months. -
Prehypertension and Cardiovascular Risk
Because of the high cardiovascular risk associated with prehypertension, both lifestyle and pharmacological interventions should be vigorously utilized to prevent its progression to full-blown hypertension with its associated higher rates of both morbidity and mortality. -
Lapatinib Tablets (Tykerb®)
The FDA has approved a new oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor with potent, reversible, selective dual inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and ErbB2 kinases. -
Clinical Briefs By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF) most prominently include age, hypertension, diabetes, valvular disease, and heart failure.