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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common cause of death in America, and diabetics suffer a disproportionate burden of risk from cardiovascular disease.
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12-lead ECG and lead II rhythm strip obtained from a 72-year-old man with hypertension, ESRD, and heart failure. Which one lead is of most concern to you?
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FDA drug approval to change? Urinary incontinence in women; how metabolism of certain drugs can be predicted by genetic analysis; bowel preps may compromise renal function especially in the elderly according to a new study; FDA Actions.
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The SWAN is a multisite, multi ethnic, prospective, observational, longitudinal study of 3302 women who were enrolled between 1995-1997.
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HABITS was a randomized but not placebo-controlled trial in which hormone therapy was compared to management without hormones in women with menopausal symptoms who had been previously treated for Stage I or Stage II breast cancer.1 Concomitant tamoxifen treatment was allowed in the HABITS patients but not aromatase inhibiters.
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The authors set out to determine the preventive services and counseling provided by gynecologists, general medical physicians, or both. Using the 2000 National Health Interview Survey, the study population included women aged 18-64 years of age (with regard to Pap smear, use of tobacco, and exercise/diet counseling) and women in the 50-64 age group (previous parameters plus breast examinations, mammograms, and colon cancer screening). Sixty-two percent of patients were seen by gynecologists, 15% by general medical physicians, and 23% by both.
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Cuppone and colleagues primarily from the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute in Rome, Italy, performed a meta-analysis of randomized trials comparing aromatase inhibitors with tamoxifen in early breast cancer, focusing on cardiovascular risk.
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Being pregnant puts patients in a special category where, seemingly, everything they put in their mouths, even some foods, has some risk to the fetus.
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Many pregnant patients ask whether it is bad to exercise regularly and vigorously, while others ask whether exercising in any way helps to improve outcome. These questions were addressed in a recent publication in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
