Primary Care Reports articles from March 2003

Primary Care Reports archives from March 2003

Organ donation.
March 1, 2003... Editor's Note--The field of transplantation can trace its roots back to the turn of the century, when experimentation in animal models yielded important information on both the technical aspects of transplant surgery and the significance of...

CME questions.
March 1, 2003... 14. The most critical obstacle to transplanting organs is: a. rejection. b. disease recurrence. c. availability of donor organs. d. financial considerations. 15. The organization responsible for donor management,...

The Metabolic Syndrome and total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middle-aged men.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... THE METABOLIC SYNDROME (MBS) HAS 2 currently popular definitions. According to the National Cholesterol Education Program, MBS exists when a patient has at least 3 of the following characteristics: fasting glucose (FPG) > 110 mg/dL, abdominal...

Amlodipine fosinopril combination on microalbuminuria in hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... NUMEROUS STUDIES HAVE CONFIRMED the role of ACE inhibitors in modulation of microalbuminuria. The data on effects of calcium channel blockers (CCB) have been conflicting, especially as concerns dihydropyridine CCB (eg, amlodipine, felodipine,...

Relation between alcohol consumption and C-reactive protein levels in the adult United States population.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA CONSISTENTLY indicate that moderate intake of alcohol (ETOH) is associated with reductions in cardiovascular mortality. Though the mechanism by which this effect is achieved is uncertain, increases in HDL by alcohol may...

Prostate cancer screening.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... IN CONTRAST TO SCREENING FOR breast and colon cancer, both of which have been demonstrated to reduce mortality, prostate cancer screening (PCS) has not yet been proven to favorably affect overall mortality, although some trials have found that...

Can we trust home BP measurement?
March 1, 2003... THE WINDOW OF OBSERVATION OF blood pressure as obtained in the typical office setting has important limitations, with both exaggerations (ie, "white-coat" hypertension), and underestimates (ie, "masked hypertension") of hypertension burden...

Systolic and diastolic dysfunction.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE (CHF) IS typically classified as systolic (ie, reduced ejection fraction), diastolic (normal ejection fraction, with impaired ventricular filling), or both. Indeed, though CHF may have been generally conceptualized...

Smallpox vaccination guidelines published by CDC.
March 1, 2003... The CDC published "Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse Reactions--Guidance for Clinicians in the Jan. 24th edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The guidance is a thorough review of the smallpox vaccine with a well-illustrated...

Nurses: delay vaccination program.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Meanwhile, not everyone is happy with the national smallpox vaccination program. Recently the American Nurses Association (ANA) requested that the Bush administration delay the smallpox vaccination program until certain safety issues can be...

Viagra effective for depression treatment.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Sildenafil (Viagra) is an effective treatment for antidepressant-associated sexual dysfunction in men. The drug was tested in a multicenter randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Ninety men with major depression in remission on SSRI...

Finisteride/doxazosin no better than placebo for urinary obstruction.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Finisteride (Proscar) is no better than placebo when used in combination with doxazosin for the treatment of urinary obstruction due to benign prostatic hypertrophy, according to the recently published Prospective European Doxazosin and...

Serevent receives `Dear Doctor' letter.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... GlaxoSmithKline has issued a "Dear Doctor" letter regarding its asthma bronchodilator salmeterol (Serevent). The warning is based on interim results from a large study of salmeterol that was initiated in 1996. The Salmeterol Multi-center Asthma...

Primary Care Reports reader survey.
March 1, 2003... In an effort to ensure Primary Care Reports is addressing the issues most important to you, we ask that you take a few minutes to complete and return this survey. The results will be used to ensure you are getting the information most important...