Internal Medicine Alert – March 30, 2011

March 30, 2011

• The Short and Long of Measuring Blood Pressures in Your Office

  Compared with manual, automated blood pressure measurements significantly reduced the white coat response in otherwise healthy primary care patients with systolic hypertension while demonstrating a stronger correlation with awake ambulatory blood pressure readings.

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• Diagnosing DVT in a Primary Care Setting

  The Wells rule for identifying patients at high risk for DVT did not perform as well as one developed from an outpatient population.

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• Make No Bones About Nitroglycerin

  In a two-year study, postmenopausal women randomized to nitroglycerin ointment group had significant increases in areal BMD at the lumbar spine, total hip, and femoral neck and decreased bone resorption.

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• Ceftaroline Fosamil Injection (Teflaro™)

  A broad-spectrum, parenteral, cephalosporin with activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria has been approved by the FDA. Ceftaroline fosamil is the prodrug of ceftaroline and is marketed by Forest Pharmaceuticals as Teflaro™.

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• Clinical Briefs by Louis Kuritzky, MD

  In animal models, aspirin (asa) has favorable effects on the incidence and/or growth rate of some cancers (CA).

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