Internal Medicine News & Articles

1 Improving Long-Term ACS Management: Is There a Role for the New Antiplatelets Journal of Interventional Cardiology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

2 High Platelet Reactivity on Clopidogrel Therapy Correlates With Increased Coronary Atherosclerosis and Calcification JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

3 Systemic Exposure to Atorvastatin Between Asian and Caucasian Subjects: A Combined Analysis of 22 Studies American Journal of Therapeutics, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

4 Association of Heart Rate and Outcomes in a Broad Spectrum of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

5 Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability in the European Lacidipine Study on Atherosclerosis: methodological aspects and effects of antihypertensive treatment Journal of Hypertension, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

6 Postpartum Lipid Levels in Women with Major Depression Journal of Women's Health, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

7 Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and the risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimers disease Alzheimer's & Dementia , May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

8 Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs, Schizophrenia, and Metabolic Syndrome in Non-Euro-American Societies Clinical Neuropharmacology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

9 Use of glucometer and fasting blood glucose as screening tools for diabetes mellitus type 2 and glycated haemoglobin as clinical reference in rural community primary care settings of a middle income country Full Text BMC Public Health, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

10 Predicting missing biomarker data in a longitudinal study of Alzheimer disease Neurology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

11 IL-10R polymorphisms are associated with very-early-onset ulcerative colitis Inflammatory Bowel Disease, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

12 Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in the Setting of Anaphylaxis Treated with High-dose Intravenous Epinephrine The Journal of Emergency Medicine, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

13 Changes of Treg and Th17 cells balance in the development of acute and chronic hepatitis B virus infection Full Text BMC Gastroenterology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

14 Conglomerated beads shape of lacunar infarcts on diffusion-weighted MRI Neurology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

15 The prostate cancer conundrum revisited Cancer, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

16 Survival in MS-A randomized cohort study 21 years after the start of the pivotal IFNβ-1b trial Neurology, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

17 Anorexia Nervosa and the Kidney American Journal of Kidney Diseases, May 22, 2012

18 Summary of Ceftaroline Activity against Pathogens in the United States, 2010: Report from the Assessing Worldwide Antimicrobial Resistance Evaluation (AWARE) Surveillance Program Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

19 Association of Malaysian Helicobacter pylori Virulence Polymorphisms with Severity of Gastritis and Patients Ethnicity Helicobacter, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

20 Intravesical OnabotulinumtoxinA Injections for Refractory Painful Bladder Syndrome Full Text Pain Physician, May 22, 2012    Clinical Article

1 Red Meat Consumption and Mortality Archives of Internal Medicine, April 10, 2012

2 Influence of vitamin D supplementation on plasma lipid profiles: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Lipids in Health and Disease, April 5, 2012    Free full text

3 Statins as a possible cause of inflammatory and necrotizing myopathies Atherosclerosis, April 23, 2012

4 Coffee consumption and risk of stroke: a meta-analysis of cohort studies Central European Journal of Medicine, March 20, 2012    Evidence Based Medicine

5 Statin Use As a Moderator of Metformin Effect on Risk for Prostate Cancer Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients Diabetes Care, April 5, 2012

6 Renal safety of intensive cholesterol-lowering treatment with rosuvastatin: A retrospective analysis of renal adverse events among 40,600 participants in the rosuvastatin clinical development program Atherosclerosis, March 27, 2012

7 Which is the preferred angiotensin II receptor blocker-based combination therapy for blood pressure control in hypertensive patients with diabetic and non-diabetic renal impairment? Cardiovascular Diabetology, April 12, 2012    Free full text

8 Effects of renin–angiotensin system blockades on cardiovascular outcomes in patients with diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, April 2, 2012    Evidence Based Medicine

9 On-treatment non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein b, triglycerides, and lipid ratios in relation to residual vascular risk after treatment with potent statin therapy JACC - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 18, 2012

10 Statin use and the risk of Clostridium difficile in academic medical centres Gut, April 11, 2012

11 Evidence-based Use of Statins for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease American Journal of Medicine, April 9, 2012    Evidence Based Medicine

12 Choice of initial antihypertensive drugs and persistence of drug use-a 4-year follow-up of 78,453 incident users European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, April 12, 2012

13 β-blockers in heart failure: benefits of β-blockers according to varying male proportions of study patients Clinical Cardiology, April 9, 2012    Free full text

14 Dual effects of statins therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus and SLE-related atherosclerosis: The potential role for regulatory T cells Atherosclerosis, April 20, 2012

15 Comparison of alternate day atorvastatin treatment to daily treatment in maintaining LDL-Cholesterol targets in patients with variable coronary risk profile Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, March 29, 2012

16 Current Trial-Associated Outcomes With Warfarin in Prevention of Stroke in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Archives of Internal Medicine, April 24, 2012    Evidence Based Medicine

17 Sustained decrease in blood pressure following missed doses of aliskiren or telmisartan: the ASSERTIVE double-blind, randomized study Journal of Hypertension, April 16, 2012

18 Role of vitamin D deficiency in cardiovascular disease Heart, March 8, 2012

19 Inhaled low-dose iloprost for pulmonary hypertension: a prospective, multicenter, open-label study Clinical Cardiology, April 10, 2012    Free full text

20 β-blockers in heart failure: benefits of β-blockers according to varying male proportions of study patients Clinical Cardiology, April 17, 2012    Free full text