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The pravastatin in elderly individuals at risk of vascular disease (PROSPER) trial is a study of statin therapy in high-risk elderly individuals. PROSPER tested the hypothesis that the benefits of statin therapy on cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cognitive decline would be seen in the elderly, which had not yet been rigorously investigated with respect to LDL lowering with a statin.
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Iwai and colleagues evaluated the effects of adenosine in 42 patients who underwent an electrophysiologic study and radiofrequency ablation for recurrent atrial tachycardias.
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The multicenter, unsustained tachycardia trial (MUSTT) was a randomized clinical trial designed to test whether antiarrhythmic therapy guided by electrophysiologic testing would reduce arrhythmic death and total mortality in high-risk patients.
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Oz and colleagues recently re-explored the possible etiology of the oligohydramnios sometimes seen in post-term pregnancy.
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Zandi and colleagues conducted a prospective study of incident dementia among 1357 men with a mean age of 73.2 years and 1889 women with a mean age of 74.5 years.
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In the weeks following the publication of the first results from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI), I have talked by phone and e-mail with clinicians all over the country.
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Eltabbakh retrospectively reviewed women presenting with clinical stage I endometrial cancer (according to the 1988 FIGO staging) at the University of Vermont. Women treated with laparoscopic surgery were compared with those treated with laparotomy with regard to their characteristics, surgical procedure, treatment, surgical stage, histology, tumor grade, and recurrence-free and overall survival.
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For the past decade, the management of ectopic pregnancy has evolved away from the old adage Never let the sun set on a suspected ectopic pregnancy, to a less surgically-oriented approach.
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Sorrentino MJ. Fish oils to lower trigylerides. Altern Med Alert 2002;5(12):141-144.
