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Rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging vs Radiographs for Patients with Low Back Pain; Effectiveness of Anticholinergic Drugs Compared with Placebo in the Treatment of Overactive Bladder; A Randomized Trial of a Low Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity
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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 73-year-old man with documented coronary disease and heart failure. He now presents with a 10-day history of dyspnea. How would you interpret his ECG?
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Thomson American Health Consultants is happy to announce that we are opening up our Primary Care Reports author process to our readers. A biweekly newsletter with approximately 5000 readers, each issue is a fully referenced, peer-reviewed monograph.
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In an intent-to-treat analysis, the use of conjugated equine estrogen combined with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate by menopausal women increased the hazard ratio of invasive breast cancer to 1.24.
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The data in this case-control study of combined estrogen plus progestin therapy revealed an increased risk of breast cancer, particularly invasive lobular tumor, regardless of whether the progestin component was taken sequentially or continuously.
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Birth weight discordancy of > 15% for same sex and > 30% for different sex confer greatest risk of adverse perinatal outcomes in the absence of abruption.
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Following radiation therapy, adjuvant extrafascial hysterectomy decreased the risk of relapse for patients with bulky stage IB cervical cancer without improving survival.
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The vasomotor flush is viewed as the hallmark of the female climacteric, experienced to some degree by most postmenopausal women. In the Massachusetts Womens Health Study, the incidence of hot flushes increased from 10% during the premenopausal period to about 50% just after cessation of menses.
