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Elevated echo-Doppler estimates of pulmonary artery pressure predict heart failure and death in CAD patients.
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Moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a decreased risk for MI and heart failure.
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Sudden arrhythmic death associated with genetically determined long QT syndrome is a significant cause of SIDS.
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Aggressive statin therapy is associated with slowed progression and even regression of atherosclerosis. A new study suggests that, when monitoring statin therapy, increases in HDL cholesterol may be as important as decreases in LDL cholesterol in preventing disease progression.
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The aim of the present study was to determine the extent to which there is an excess risk of postpartum psychiatric disorders in women vs men. The authors note that postpartum depression afflicts about 10-15% of women and postpartum psychosis about 0.1%.
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Silverman and colleagues reported the prevalence of depression in a cross-sectional subset of 3798 women in 6 English-speaking countries, who participated in the Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluation (MORE) trial.
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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT) for ovarian cancer refers specifically to the administration of cytotoxic therapy ahead of a planned surgical resection usually for primary therapy.
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Case and her co-authors performed a blinded and prospective evaluation of the accuracy of frozen section analysis in a cohort of 60 patients undergoing a surgical staging attempt. Their institutional policy was to formally stage all patients regardless of the uterine tumor characteristics.
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Black and colleagues reported the results of an extension of the alendronate Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) in which the participants were randomized after 5 years of treatment either to another 5 years of treatment or placebo.
