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January 7, 2003; 138 (1)

Articles

  • Glycemic Effects of Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy: The Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

    • Alka M. Kanaya,
    • David Herrington,
    • Eric Vittinghoff,
    • Feng Lin,
    • Deborah Grady,
    • Vera Bittner,
    • Jane A. Cauley,
    • and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:1-9

    In women with coronary disease, hormone therapy reduced the incidence of diabetes by 35%. Although this observation provides important insights into the metabolic effects of postmenopausal hormones, reducing the risk for diabetes is not a sufficient rationale to recommend the use of hormones for secondary prevention of heart disease.

  • Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Pulse Pressure as Predictors of Risk for Congestive Heart Failure in the Framingham Heart Study

    • Agha W. Haider,
    • Martin G. Larson,
    • Stanley S. Franklin,
    • and Daniel Levy
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:10-16

    Although each component of blood pressure was associated with risk for congestive heart failure, pulse pressure and systolic pressure conferred greater risk than diastolic pressure. Increased pulse pressure may help identify hypertensive patients who, because they are at high risk for congestive heart failure, are candidates for aggressive blood pressure control.

  • Genetic Variation in the Renin–Angiotensin System and Abdominal Adiposity in Men: The Olivetti Prospective Heart Study

    • Pasquale Strazzullo,
    • Roberto Iacone,
    • Licia Iacoviello,
    • Ornella Russo,
    • Gianvincenzo Barba,
    • Paola Russo,
    • Andria D'Orazio,
    • Antonio Barbato,
    • Francesco Paolo Cappuccio,
    • Eduardo Farinaro,
    • and Alfonso Siani
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:17-23

    The angiotensin-converting enzyme I/D polymorphism was a significant predictor of overweight and abdominal adiposity in men. DD homozygosity was associated with larger age-related increases in body weight and blood pressure, as well as with higher incidence of overweight and abdominal adiposity.

  • Obesity in Adulthood and Its Consequences for Life Expectancy: A Life-Table Analysis

    • Anna Peeters,
    • Jan J. Barendregt,
    • Frans Willekens,
    • Johan P. Mackenbach,
    • Abdullah Al Mamun,
    • Luc Bonneux,
    • and for NEDCOM, the Netherlands Epidemiology and Demography Compression of Morbidity Research Group*
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:24-32

    Obesity and overweight in adulthood are associated with large decreases in life expectancy and increases in early mortality, similar to the decreases seen with smoking. Obesity in adulthood is a powerful predictor of death in middle age. Because of the increasing prevalence of obesity, more efficient prevention and treatment should become high priorities in public health.

Academia and Clinic

  • The STARD Statement for Reporting Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy: Explanation and Elaboration

    • Patrick M. Bossuyt,
    • Johannes B. Reitsma,
    • David E. Bruns,
    • Constantine A. Gatsonis,
    • Paul P. Glasziou,
    • Les M. Irwig,
    • David Moher,
    • Drummond Rennie,
    • Henrica C.W. de Vet,
    • and Jeroen G. Lijmer
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:W1-W12

  • A Hospitalization from Hell: A Patient's Perspective on Quality

    • Paul D. Cleary
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:33-39

    Patients are the best source of information about a hospital system's communication, education, and pain-management processes, and they are the only source of information about whether they were treated with dignity and respect. This article, part of the Quality Grand Rounds series, discusses relatively easy and inexpensive ways to avoid some consequences of a hospital's organizational problems.

  • Towards Complete and Accurate Reporting of Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy: The STARD Initiative

    • Patrick M. Bossuyt,
    • Johannes B. Reitsma,
    • David E. Bruns,
    • Constantine A. Gatsonis,
    • Paul P. Glasziou,
    • Les M. Irwig,
    • Jeroen G. Lijmer,
    • David Moher,
    • Drummond Rennie,
    • Henrica C.W. de Vet,
    • and for the STARD Group*
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:40-44

    The STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy) initiative provides carefully developed consensus-based guidelines for reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy, enabling readers to better understand the design of the study and to assess the validity and applicability of the results.

Review

  • Prescribing Oral Contraceptives for Women Older Than 35 Years of Age

    • Christine Seibert,
    • Ellen Barbouche,
    • Julie Fagan,
    • Erane Myint,
    • Tosha Wetterneck,
    • and Melaura Wittemyer
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:54-64

    This case-based paper discusses combined oral contraceptives in women older than 35 years of age, including potential risks and benefits, pretreatment assessment, common side effects and their management, appropriate follow-up, and diagnosis of menopause.

Perspectives

  • CPR for Patients Labeled DNR: The Role of the Limited Aggressive Therapy Order

    • Niteesh K. Choudhry,
    • Sujit Choudhry,
    • and Peter A. Singer
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:65-68

    Patients who are reluctant to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be offered the option of consenting to cardiopulmonary resuscitation for “higher-success” situations, including a witnessed cardiopulmonary arrest in which the initial cardiac rhythm is ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation, cardiac arrest in the operating room, or cardiac arrest resulting from a readily identifiable iatrogenic cause. This new level of resuscitation could be called a “limited aggressive therapy” order.

Editorial

  • Lower Diabetes Risk with Hormone Replacement Therapy: An Encore for Estrogen?

    • Peter W.F. Wilson
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:69-70

    In this issue, Kanaya and colleagues report a lower risk for new-onset type 2 diabetes in postmenopausal women receiving combined estrogen–progestin hormone replacement therapy. These results from the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study are not definitive and require confirmation in a formalized clinical trial with predetermined hyperglycemic end points.

On Being a Doctor

  • A Rash Decision

    • Georganna Davis
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:71-72

    My preceptor had been my family physician since I was in kindergarten. This was the man who urged me every time I visited to come back to our rural town and take his place. I heard a distinctive, familiar voice call my name. “Miss Davis, are you ready to see what medicine is all about?“

On Being a Patient

  • A Complaint against “Complaints”

    • June Bingham
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:73-74

    Having just emerged, age 82, from the Valley of the Shadow, thanks to a just-in-time-ly removal of a cancerous uterus, I am full of bright shiny ideas, most of which are probably worthless. But one, I'm convinced, is not. That is the need to expurgate the word “complaint” from the medical lexicon for defining reportage by elderly and other patients about their symptoms.

Letters

  • Resident Stress

    • Louis M. Soletsky
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:W13

  • Resident Stress

    • Kim J. Masters
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:W14

  • Alcohol and Congestive Heart Failure

    • XinQi Dong
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:75

  • Alcohol and Congestive Heart Failure

    • Ali Ahmed and
    • Richard M. Allman
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:75

  • Alcohol and Congestive Heart Failure

    • Craig R. Walsh and
    • Daniel Levy
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:75-76

  • Risk for Venous Thromboembolism in Carriers of the Factor V Leiden Mutation

    • Rebecca L. Orwoll
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:76

  • Risk for Venous Thromboembolism in Carriers of the Factor V Leiden Mutation

    • Saskia Middeldorp,
    • Harry R. Büller,
    • and Martin H. Prins
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:76-77

  • Survival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses

    • Roland Staud
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:77

  • Survival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses

    • Brooke Miskie,
    • Susan Near,
    • and Robert Hegele
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:77-78

  • Survival in Academy Award–Winning Actors and Actresses

    • Donald A. Redelmeier and
    • Sheldon Singh
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:78

  • J-Shaped Relationship in Hypertension

    • Geza Simon
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:78

  • Contamination of the Blood Supply in the 1980s and 1990s

    • Ann Pozen
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:78-79

  • Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation for the Bernard–Soulier Syndrome

    • Franco Locatelli,
    • Gabriele Rossi,
    • and Carlo Balduini
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:79

  • Correction: The Risk–Benefit Profile of Commonly Used Herbal Therapies

    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:79

Medical Writings: Book Notes

Ad Libitum

Book Listings

Medical Notices

Summaries for Patients

  • Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy and Blood Sugar

    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:I-10

  • Evaluation of Risk Factors for Congestive Heart Failure

    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:I-22

  • Genes of the Renin–Angiotensin System and the Development of Obesity in Men

    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:I-26

  • Overweight and Obesity by Middle Age Are Associated with Shortened Lifespan

    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:I-44

Updates from the Annual Session

  • Update in Gastroenterology

    • Norton J. Greenberger
    Ann Intern Med January 7, 2003 138:45-53

    This Update discusses gastroesophageal reflux disease, Helicobacter pylori infection, infectious diarrhea, colon cancer screening, gastrointestinal bleeding, and inflammatory bowel disease.

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January 7, 2003; 138 (1)
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  5. Editorial
  6. On Being a Doctor
  7. On Being a Patient
  8. Letters
  9. Medical Writings: Book Notes
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  13. Summaries for Patients
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