Primary Care Reports articles from October 2003

Primary Care Reports archives from October 2003

The best-seller diets: their claims, recipes, and nutritionals.
October 1, 2003... Obesity: Where We Are Americans spend $35 billion a year on the diet industry, and about 45% of women and 30% of men consider themselves on a diet at some time each year. Every year, nearly 6% of direct health care costs--more than $52...

CME Questions.
October 1, 2003... 19. Which one of the following is not a low-protein, high-carb diet? a. Ornish b. Pritikin c. Atkins d. McDougall 20. Which one of the following is not a low-carb, hgh-protein diet? a. Atkins b. Ornish c....

Seasonale: a revolutionary contraceptive.(Audio Conference)
October 1, 2003... Extended hormonal contraception is drawing dramatic attention due to the desire of many women to reduce or eliminate the number of withdrawal bleeds associated with current birth control methods. The first extended-use oral contraceptive,...

A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 80 percent.
October 1, 2003... DESPITE IMPRESSIVE RESULTS IN cardiovascular risk reduction by applying an individual treatment (eg, statin, antihypertensive), the effect of multiple risk factor reduction has been much more elusive to quantify. Wald and Law suggest that the...

Pearly penile papules: still no reason for uneasiness.
October 1, 2003... IT IS NOT COMMON FOR ADULT MEN TO present to clinicians with lesions on their penis, which ultimately turn out to be pearly penile papules (PPP). These lesions appear around the margins of the glans and have been sometimes mistaken for...

The epidemiology of major depressive disorder.
October 1, 2003... THE FIRST MAJOR NATIONAL POPULATION survey to establish the demo-graphics of depression using DSM III criteria occurred 1990-1992 and reported a lifetime prevalence of 14.9%, with 12 month prevalence of 8.6%. Since that report, an evolution of...

Urinary tetrahydroaldosterone as a screen for aldosteronism.
October 1, 2003... IT HAS RECENTLY BEEN SUGGESTED THAT a substantial minority of persons with hypertension-as many as 1 out of 7 or 8-suffer overlooked primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA) as an etiology. Although unprovoked hypokalemia, when present, is a useful...

Finasteride and prostate cancer.
October 1, 2003... IT IS APPARENT THAT ANDROGENIC HORMONES, in particular dihydrotestosterone (DHT), are participants in the generation of prostate cancer (PCA). Since 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors (5ARI) like finasteride (Proscar) and dutasteride (Avodart) are...

Impermeable bed covers in patients with allergic rhinitis.
October 1, 2003... SUFFERERS OF ALLERGIC RHINITIS (ALR) are often sensitive to a variety of allergens, of which house-dust mites are a commonplace troublemaker. The 2 most common offending house-dust antigens, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and D farinae, are...

Vardenafil will compete for share of ed market.
October 1, 2003... The FDA has approved vardenafil (LevitraBayer and GlaxoSmithKline) for the treatment of erectile dysfunction in men. Vardenafil joins sildenafil (Viagra) as the only 2 drugs approved for this indication in this country. Vardenafil was approved...