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Obesity confers an elevated risk of ACS in subgroups of subjects with both healthy and less healthy lifestyle behaviors. However, adherence to healthy lifestyle behaviors is definitely associated with a lower risk even among obese individuals.
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It has been suggested that bipolar disorder (BPD) is underdiagnosed, and is hence sometimes regrettably discovered subsequent to unmasking with treatment instituted for presumed unipolar depression.
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Baxter Bioscience has developed a whole-virus, two dose vaccine against avian flu; warning label now on antipsychotics regarding an increased risk of mortality in elderly patients treated for dementia-related psychosis; vitamin D for men with heart disease on horizon? A new oral anticoagulant may soon be available for prevention of thrombotic complications of hip or knee surgery; FDA Actions
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Euthyroid sick syndrome is a reversible abnormality of thyroid function tests in the presence of an acute or chronic nonthyroidal illness (NTI) or an altered physiologic state such as starvation.
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In this review of patients admitted to the ICU with acute respiratory failure secondary to COPD exacerbation or cardiogenic pulmonary edema, nearly two-thirds of patients who apparently met criteria for noninvasive ventilation (NIV) were intubated without a trial of NIV.
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Institution of a daily pharmacist-enforced intervention designed to improve adherence to sedation guidelines decreased the duration of mechanical ventilation and ICU stay.
