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March 16, 1999; 130 (6)

Articles

  • A More Accurate Method To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine: A New Prediction Equation

    • Andrew S. Levey,
    • Juan P. Bosch,
    • Julia Breyer Lewis,
    • Tom Greene,
    • Nancy Rogers,
    • David Roth,
    • and for the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Group*
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:461-470

    The serum creatinine concentration is widely used as an index of renal function, but this measure is affected by factors other than the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). This study examined an equation to predict GFR from serum creatinine concentrations and other factors.

  • Long-Term Weight Patterns and Risk for Cholecystectomy in Women

    • Sapna Syngal,
    • Eugenie H. Coakley,
    • Walter C. Willett,
    • Tim Byers,
    • David F. Williamson,
    • and Graham A. Colditz
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:471-477

    Weight cycling was highly prevalent in a large cohort of middle-aged women. Independent of attained relative body weight, the risk for cholecystectomy associated with weight cycling was substantial.

  • Etanercept Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

    • Larry W. Moreland,
    • Michael H. Schiff,
    • Scott W. Baumgartner,
    • Elizabeth A. Tindall,
    • Roy M. Fleischmann,
    • Ken J. Bulpitt,
    • Arthur L. Weaver,
    • Edward C. Keystone,
    • Daniel E. Furst,
    • Philip J. Mease,
    • Eric M. Ruderman,
    • David A. Horwitz,
    • Daniel G. Arkfeld,
    • Leslie Garrison,
    • Daniel J. Burge,
    • Consuelo M. Blosch,
    • Mary L.M. Lange,
    • Neil D. McDonnell,
    • and Michael E. Weinblatt
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:478-486

    Etanercept can safely provide rapid, clinically significant, and sustained benefit in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Oral Montelukast, Inhaled Beclomethasone, and Placebo for Chronic Asthma: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

    • Kerstin Malmstrom,
    • Guillermo Rodriguez-Gomez,
    • Jeremias Guerra,
    • Cesar Villaran,
    • Andres Piñeiro,
    • Lynn X. Wei,
    • Beth C. Seidenberg,
    • Theodore F. Reiss,
    • and for the Montelukast/Beclomethasone Study Group*
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:487-495

    Beclomethasone had a larger mean effect than montelukast, but both drugs provided clinical benefit to patients with chronic asthma. This finding is consistent with the use of these agents as controller medications for chronic asthma.

  • Cost-Utility of Three Approaches to the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea: Polysomnography, Home Testing, and Empirical Therapy

    • Ronald D. Chervin,
    • Daniel L. Murman,
    • Beth A. Malow,
    • and Vicken Totten
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:496-505

    The cost–utility of polysomnography instead of home study or no testing for the diagnosis of the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome compares favorably with that of other procedures for which society judges the added utility per dollar spent to be worthwhile.

Brief Communications

  • Pulmonary Hypertension after Splenectomy?

    • Marius M. Hoeper,
    • Jost Niedermeyer,
    • Frank Hoffmeyer,
    • Peer Flemming,
    • and Helmut Fabel
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:506-509

    Patients who have had splenectomy may be at increased risk for pulmonary hypertension.

  • Phase I Studies of Hypericin, the Active Compound in St. John's Wort, as an Antiretroviral Agent in HIV-Infected Adults: AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocols 150 and 258

    • Roy M. Gulick,
    • Vincent McAuliffe,
    • Jeanne Holden-Wiltse,
    • Clyde Crumpacker,
    • Leonard Liebes,
    • Daniel S. Stein,
    • Patricia Meehan,
    • Sheila Hussey,
    • Janet Forcht,
    • Fred T. Valentine,
    • and for the AIDS Clinical Trials Group 150 and 258 Protocol Teams
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:510-514

    Hypericin, the active compound in St. John's wort, caused significant phototoxicity and had no antiretroviral activity in HIV-infected patients.

Academia and Clinic

  • Assessing the Generalizability of Prognostic Information

    • Amy C. Justice,
    • Kenneth E. Covinsky,
    • and Jesse A. Berlin
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:515-524

    This paper describes an approach for evaluating prognostic systems based on the accuracy and generalizability of the system's predictions.

Medicine and Public Issues

  • Barriers to Office-Based Screening Sigmoidoscopy: Does Reimbursement Cover Costs?

    • James D. Lewis and
    • David A. Asch
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:525-530

    Low reimbursement may limit the adoption of screening flexible sigmoidoscopy with or without biopsy in primary care practices.

Editorials

  • Newer Asthma Therapies

    • Lewis J. Smith
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:531-532

    In patients with asthma, the overall response rate to the gold standard treatment, corticosteroids, may be as low as 70%. Clearly, there is a need to identify treatments that are effective when corticosteroids are not. Malmstrom and colleagues' study in this issue contributes to other studies that have increased our understanding of the beneficial effects and safety of leukotriene receptor antagonists.

  • Economic Implications of the Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    • Allan I. Pack and
    • Indira Gurubhagavatula
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:533-534

    In this issue, Chervin and colleagues present a cost–utility analysis that evaluates the relative effectiveness of three diagnostic strategies for the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. This analysis points the way to a more rigorous cost-based approach to assessment of the relative value of different diagnostic strategies.

On Being a Patient

Letters

  • Primaquine Prophylaxis against Malaria

    • D. Gray Heppner, Jr.,
    • Robert A. Gasser, Jr.,
    • and Kent E. Kester
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:536

  • Primaquine Prophylaxis against Malaria

    • Michele Barry
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:536

  • Primaquine Prophylaxis against Malaria

    • Jaime Soto and
    • Jonathan Berman
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:536-537

  • Myocardial Infarction Associated with Buprenorphine

    • Jean-Luc Cracowski,
    • Michel Mallaret,
    • and Gérald Vanzetto
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:537

  • Lipoprotein(a) in Acromegaly

    • Pietro Maffei,
    • Nicola Sicolo,
    • and Mario Plebani
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:537-538

  • Low Rate of Venous Thromboembolism in Asymptomatic Relatives of Probands with Factor V Leiden Mutation

    • Paolo Simioni,
    • Paolo Prandoni,
    • and Antonio Girolami
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:538

  • Oregon's Death with Dignity Act: Ten Months Later

    • Howard Wineberg
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:538

Medical Writings: Book Notes

  • CaduCIS on CD-ROM

    • David A. Lacher and
    • Matthew W. Morgan
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:539

  • Medline for Health Professionals: How to Search PubMed on the Internet

    • Mary Graves Johnson
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:540

  • MGH Guide to Psychiatry in Primary Care

    • Virginia Gennis
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:540

Currents

  • Controlling Disease Transmission in Injection Drug Users

    • Brigid Kane
    Ann Intern Med March 16, 1999 130:541-544

Book Listings

Medical Notices

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