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The risk of future cardiovascular events in patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) was lowest when the BP was in the range of approximately 130-140 mmHg systolic and 80-90 mm Hg diastolic and became highest as the blood pressure became lower; in fact, a blood pressure less than 110/70 mm Hg may actually be dangerous.
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Brief behavioral intervention significantly relieved insomnia in a group of older adults.
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It has been recognized for more than a decade that most patients with IBS have abnormal lactulose hydrogen breath tests results, consistent with small bowel bacterial overgrowth.
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The ECG shows sinus rhythm at 85/minute. The PR interval is normal. The QRS duration is upper normal (half a large box, but not more) and the QT interval is upper normal (about half the R-R interval, with a QTc ≈ 0.44 second).
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In this study, 783 HIV-infected Indian mother-infant pairs participated in a randomized clinical trial comparing NVP given for 6 weeks vs. single-dose NVP to prevent MTCT of HIV among breast-fed infants.
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A randomized study was conducted from january 2005 to December 2007 in Amsterdam, among 50 immunocompetent children 14-114 months of age (median age, 35 months) with culture- or PCR-confirmed non-tuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis.
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Only limited data are available regarding the epidemiology of infectious diseases that occur among traveling health-care workers (HCWs) or medical researchers.
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Admissions to a public tb hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa for treatment of MDR- and XDR-TB from 2003 to 2008 were examined for healthcare workers (HCWs) compared with non-HCWs.
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Knowledge of the presence of an increased proportion of band neutrophils (neutrophils with non-segmented nuclei) is believed by many clinicians to assist them in the diagnosis and management of some patients with suspected or known infection.
