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The quintet of abdominal obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, abnormal glucose metabolism, and coagulopathy has been called syndrome X or metabolic syndrome. Some have referred to this grouping as the insulin resistance syndrome, the obesity dyslipidemia syndrome, and the deadly quartet.
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Zandi and colleagues conducted a prospective study of incident dementia among 1357 men with a mean age of 73.2 years and 1889 women with a mean age of 74.5 years.
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Oz and colleagues recently re-explored the possible etiology of the oligohydramnios sometimes seen in post-term pregnancy.
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For the past decade, the management of ectopic pregnancy has evolved away from the old adage Never let the sun set on a suspected ectopic pregnancy, to a less surgically-oriented approach.
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Eltabbakh retrospectively reviewed women presenting with clinical stage I endometrial cancer (according to the 1988 FIGO staging) at the University of Vermont. Women treated with laparoscopic surgery were compared with those treated with laparotomy with regard to their characteristics, surgical procedure, treatment, surgical stage, histology, tumor grade, and recurrence-free and overall survival.
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In the weeks following the publication of the first results from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI), I have talked by phone and e-mail with clinicians all over the country.
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In June a report emerged in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that should get every obstetrical providers attention.
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This is the first report from a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of tamoxifen for the chemoprevention of breast cancer in women deemed to be at high risk.