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In community-dwelling women age 70 years and older, annual oral administration of high-dose vitamin D for 3-5 years resulted in a higher, not lower, incidence of falls and fractures.
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Because it is recognized that type 2 diabetics (DM2) incur greater risk of CV outcomes than the general population, consensus groups have advocated BP < 130/80 mmHg as a preferred goal, in contrast to 140/90 mmHg for the general hypertensive population.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from an 88-year-old woman who refused treatment. What is the rhythm? Is there a grouping? Is anything else going on?
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New reports about proton pump inhibitors and the effects of gastric suppression, pioglitazone vs vitamin E for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, metformin and vitamin B12 deficiency, and FDA Actions.
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You are on duty in the ED when the paramedics bring in a patient from the county jail who had tried to hang himself. When the patient arrives, you are told by the accompanying guard that the patient was found with a tightly twisted bedsheet around his neck and looped over the bedpost of the metal bunkbed.
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