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A second ezetimbe/statin combination has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of hyperlipidemia. Ezetimibe is now combined with atorvastatin and is marketed by Merck & Co. as Liptruzet.
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Whats the Durability of Lifestyle Change in Type 2 Diabetes?; Perimenstrual Asthma: A High-Risk Phenotype; Risk of New Onset Diabetes with Statins
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A strategy of annual screening of blood pressure was as sensitive and more specific than the usual practice of measuring it at every office visit.
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Bacteria were present on the cell phones of all hospital clinicians studied, with potentially pathogenic microorganisms isolated from 29% of them. Contamination with pathogens was found more commonly with smart phones than with non-smart phones, and by multivariable analysis no other factor was associated with this difference.
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A brief web intervention improved shared decision making regarding prostate cancer screening.
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Once-daily Tadalafil for ED: Efficacy and Safety; Psychological Disorders: How to Give Patients What They Want and What They Need; Reducing Stroke Risk After TIA or Minor Ischemic Stroke
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Digoxin has no association with mortality in patients with heart failure in the AFFIRM study when bias is removed with a careful propensity-matched analysis.
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The authors compared potential risk factors, clini-cal symptoms, diagnostic delay, and 3-month outcome between spontaneous internal carotid artery dissection (sICAD) and spontaneous vertebral artery dissection (sVAD).
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In patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors, daily treatment with n-3 fatty acids did not reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity.
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The impression is acute infero-posterior infarction, with possible lateral and right ventricular involvement. In most patients, the right coronary artery (RCA) supplies the right ventricle and posterior and inferior walls of the left ventricle.
