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Revisions of BMI cut-points to define obesity in ethnic minorities may be warranted.
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Women harbor less atherosclerotic plaque within their coronary arteries, despite the greater prevalence of atherogenic risk factors.
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Rosuvastatin plus ezetimibe may improve the management of high-risk patients by increasing the number that reach goal LDL cholesterol levels.
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Rosuvastatin and atorvastatin at their maximal doses, favorably change HDL subpopulation levels, but rosuvastatin is significantly more potent than atorvastatin for this purpose
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IVIG is safe and effective for worsening Myasthenia Gravis, but has no effect on the natural course of Miller Fisher syndrome.
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Among 413 patients who underwent placement of a removable inferior vena cava filter following trauma for prophylaxis or treatment of pulmonary thromboembolism and survived to hospital discharge, subsequent removal of the filter was attempted in 116 of them and successful in only 91 (22%).
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Unfractionated heparin (UH) is commonly used in acutely ill hospital patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE).
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Since the publication of the initial IDSA Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in 2003, hospital administrators have been scrambling to improve their numbers.
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The incidence of invasive infections due to MRSA in 2005 was approximately 100 times greater in chronic dialysis patients than in the general population.
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A prospective randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center trial demonstrates that a prolonged course of intravenous selenium improves mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock and is associated with minimal to no side effects.