Smoking status and risk for recurrent coronary events after myocardial infarction.

abstract：Background:Biosimilars are of growing clinical, regulatory, and commercial importance. Purpose:To summarize evidence about the bioequivalence between biosimilar and reference tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) inhibitors. Data Sources:PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and LILACS from incept...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chingcuanco F,Segal JB,Kim SC,Alexander GC

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Deaths and injuries from firearms are significant public health problems, and clinicians are in a unique position to identify risk among their patients and discuss the importance of safe firearm practices. Although clinicians may be ill-prepared to engage in such discussions, an adequate body of evidence is available ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Pallin R,Spitzer SA,Ranney ML,Betz ME,Wintemute GJ

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of circulating platelet aggregates and plasma beta-thromboglobulin reflect the degree of platelet activation in vascular injury and repair. Both values were evaluated in 38 patients with scleroderma and 18 control subjects matched for age, sex, and race. Circulating platelet aggregates (expressed as percentage ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kahaleh MB,Osborn I,Leroy EC

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visits to physicians for genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection continue to increase. Most patients with symptomatic infections have recurrences, but no studies of the long-term clinical course of genital herpes are available. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the frequency of HSV recurrences decreases o...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Benedetti JK,Zeh J,Corey L

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kindreds affected by maturity-onset type of hyperglycemia in young people were studied. The postglucose-load hyperglycemia segregated as an autosomal dominant trait; it was always mild, never requiring insulin, and generally seemed to start in the first two decades of life. Glucose, insulin, glucagon, and growth h...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Barbosa J,Ramsay R,Goetz FC

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective data at Framingham and elsewhere have shown conclusively that risk of coronary heart disease in persons younger than age 50 is strikingly related to the serum total cholesterol level. Within so-called normal limits risk has been found to mount over a five-fold range. The impact has been found to be augment...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kannel WB,Castelli WP,Gordon T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, acupuncture is embedded in naturalistic theories that are compatible with Confucianism and Taoism. Such ideas as yin-yang, qi, dampness, and wind represent East Asian conceptual frameworks that emphasize the reliability of ordinary, human sensory awareness. Many physicians who practice acupuncture rejec...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kaptchuk TJ

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Expert groups, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), recommend a range of clinical preventive services for persons at average risk for disease. Use of these services often is substantially lower among racial and ethnic minority groups, rural residents, and persons of lower socioeconomic status. O...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Carey TS,Bekemeier B,Campos-Outcalt D,Koch-Weser S,Millon-Underwood S,Teutsch S

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hemodialysis patients receiving deferoxamine for metal overload had fatal rhinocerebral rhizopus infections. Serious fungal infections are not commonly seen in patients on dialysis, and none of these patients had the usual risk factors for rhizopus infection. Deferoxamine is being used with increased frequency in...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Windus DW,Stokes TJ,Julian BA,Fenves AZ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cataract disrupts the crystalline lens, a transparent, elastic, avascular, biconvex structure composed of a capsule, lens epithelium, and lens fiber cells. Many factors contribute to the progression of lens opacity, but aging is most frequently associated with cataract. As aging-related cataract develops, many biochem...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Straatsma BR,Foos RY,Horwitz J,Gardner KM,Pettit TH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and myasthenia gravis has been infrequently reported. We report another case and show the coexistence of autoantibodies to the platelet glycoprotein IIb and IIIa complex and the acetylcholine receptor. Autoantibody levels were followed during 8 weeks of tr...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson MJ,Woods VL Jr,Tani P,Lindstrom JM,Schmidt D,McMillan R

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of DNA is a biochemical modification that can influence gene expression and is involved in inactivating one of the two X chromosomes in women. Evidence that has accumulated in the past 10 years suggests that cancer cells usurp this physiologic mechanism and use it to their benefit by inactivating tumor sup...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Santini V,Kantarjian HM,Issa JP

更新日期：2001-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:For years patients hospitalized with viral hepatitis have been placed in two categories of isolation--enteric precautions and blood precautions. This strategy was based on the inability to differentiate between hepatitis A and B and on the assumption that feces and blood from patients with either type might be infecti...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Favero MS,Maynard JE,Leger RT,Graham DR,Dixon RE

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although few retrospective studies of high altitude have reported that obesity might be associated with the development of acute mountain sickness (AMS), this association has not been studied prospectively. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether obesity is associated with the development of AMS. DESIGN:Obese and n...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ri-Li G,Chase PJ,Witkowski S,Wyrick BL,Stone JA,Levine BD,Babb TG

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five consecutive patients with progressive systemic sclerosis were prospectively evaluated for evidence of Sjögren's syndrome. Six of the 35 (17%) were judged to have the disorder. This is a higher prevalence than in most reports, but much lower than that recently reportedly by Alarcón-Segovia and associates (7...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cipoletti JF,Buckingham RB,Barnes EL,Peel RL,Mahmood K,Cignetti FE,Pierce JM,Rabin BS,Rodnan GP

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Observations that risk for colorectal cancer is elevated in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and that long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs may reduce colorectal cancer risk have raised the possibility that inflammation may play a role in the development of colorectal cancer. While a recent prospe...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zhang SM,Buring JE,Lee IM,Cook NR,Ridker PM

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Older adults with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have higher prevalence of functional impairments, including deficits in cognition, strength, and sensory domains, than their younger counterparts. Objective:To develop and evaluate the prognostic utility of a risk model for 6-month post-AMI mortality in ol...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dodson JA,Hajduk AM,Geda M,Krumholz HM,Murphy TE,Tsang S,Tinetti ME,Nanna MG,McNamara R,Gill TM,Chaudhry SI

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the clinical and laboratory characteristics of 71 patients with hairy cell leukemia to ascertain whether prognostic factors important for the therapy of the disease existed. Granulocytopenia of less than 500/mu 1 was associated with the occurrence of a serious infection in 46% of the patients, compared to 1...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Golomb HM,Catovsky D,Golde DW

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies of the cause of gastrointestinal symptoms in homosexual men, Campylobacter jejuni was recovered from 10 of 158 men with, and 2 of 75 men without, intestinal symptoms. In addition, a heterogeneous group of Campylobacter-like organisms was identified in 26 symptomatic and 6 asymptomatic homosexual men, but in...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Quinn TC,Goodell SE,Fennell C,Wang SP,Schuffler MD,Holmes KK,Stamm WE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In 1994, 40% of U.S. gun owners who had recently acquired a firearm did so without a background check. No contemporary estimates exist. Objective:To estimate the proportion of current U.S. gun owners who acquired their most recent firearm without a background check, by time since and manner of acquisition, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Miller M,Hepburn L,Azrael D

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In September 1978, cases of hepatitis B in two patients treated by the same dentist led to investigation of a dental practice in Baltimore, Maryland. The dentist had had acute hepatitis B in June 1978 and had remained positive for hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen over the ensuing 6 months. He had ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hadler SC,Sorley DL,Acree KH,Webster HM,Schable CA,Francis DP,Maynard JE

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable change in the practice of internal medicine in the past quarter century, including the rise of specialization, increasing time pressure, the hospitalist movement, and the rapidly changing responsibilities of internists in inpatient and outpatient settings. Training programs have not adequat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.,Fitzgibbons JP,Bordley DR,Berkowitz LR,Miller BW,Henderson MC

更新日期：2006-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A national registry was begun in 1981 to collect data from 32 centers on patients diagnosed by uniform criteria as having primary pulmonary hypertension. Entered into the registry were 187 patients with a mean age (+/- SD) of 36 +/- 15 years (range, 1 to 81), and a female-to-male ratio of 1.7:1 overall. The mean inter...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rich S,Dantzker DR,Ayres SM,Bergofsky EH,Brundage BH,Detre KM,Fishman AP,Goldring RM,Groves BM,Koerner SK

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop an early diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer based on the identification of K-ras mutations in pure pancreatic juice collected during endoscopic retrograde pancreatography. DESIGN:Prospective study with masked comparison. The standard criteria for the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer were pancreat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Berthélemy P,Bouisson M,Escourrou J,Vaysse N,Rumeau JL,Pradayrol L

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and efficacy of intravenous adenosine in terminating acute episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. DESIGN:Two prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials to evaluate dose response in patients receiving adenosine and to compare the effects of adenosine wi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： DiMarco JP,Miles W,Akhtar M,Milstein S,Sharma AD,Platia E,McGovern B,Scheinman MM,Govier WC

更新日期：1990-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To prospectively study the clinical features, pathophysiology, treatment and prognosis of Wegener granulomatosis. DESIGN:Of the 180 patients with Wegener granulomatosis referred to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the past 24 years, 158 have been followed for 6 months to 24 ye...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hoffman GS,Kerr GS,Leavitt RY,Hallahan CW,Lebovics RS,Travis WD,Rottem M,Fauci AS

更新日期：1992-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pay-for-performance (P4P) is increasingly touted as a means to improve health care quality. PURPOSE:To evaluate the effect of P4P remuneration targeting individual health care providers. DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, OpenSIGLE, Canadian Evaluation Society Unpublished Literature Bank, New ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Houle SK,McAlister FA,Jackevicius CA,Chuck AW,Tsuyuki RT

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urine tests for Chlamydia trachomatis permit expansion of screening beyond traditional clinic environments. Prevention of infection in teenagers is a high priority. OBJECTIVE:To define the prevalence of C. trachomatis among teenagers by using the ligase chain reaction assay on urine specimens and to evaluat...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Marrazzo JM,White CL,Krekeler B,Celum CL,Lafferty WE,Stamm WE,Handsfield HH

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1978 and 1985, the number of active internists in the United States increased from 64,000 to 91,000, and by 1998 the number will have increased to 141,000. This growth represents an increase of 121% for a 20-year period, during which time the population of the United States is expected to increase only 19%. Th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kletke PR,Schleiter MK,Tarlov AR

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most frequent cancer worldwide, responsible for approximately 1,000,000 deaths annually, most of them in the Far East and in sub-Saharan Africa. It usually presents at an advanced stage and has a poor prognosis. There is evidence of an etiologic role for hepatitis B virus infection in t...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Di Bisceglie AM,Rustgi VK,Hoofnagle JH,Dusheiko GM,Lotze MT

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00