Dementia in elderly outpatients: a prospective study.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of a resistance-training program on walking endurance in a healthy, community-dwelling elderly population. DESIGN:12- week randomized, controlled trial comparing a resistance- training group with a nonexercising control group. SETTING:Hospital-affiliated outpatient exercise facility....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ades PA,Ballor DL,Ashikaga T,Utton JL,Nair KS

更新日期：1996-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the factors that distinguish terminally ill, incompetent patients who are given do-not-resuscitate status by physicians against the wishes of the patient's family, I reviewed the charts of 20 such patients (cases) seen in consultation by the ethics committee at the Massachusetts General Hospital over 10 ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brennan TA

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the diagnostic difficulties, response to therapy, and clinical features of lymphomatoid papulosis and the cumulative frequency of transformation to lymphoma. DESIGN:Case series. SETTING:University hospitals. METHODS:The records of 21 patients with lymphomatoid papulosis who were seen from 1986 ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Cabanillas F,Armitage J,Pugh WC,Weisenburger D,Duvic M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although several agents are available to treat osteoporosis, the relative efficacy and toxicity of these agents when used to prevent fractures has not been well described. PURPOSE:To compare the benefits in fracture reduction and the harms from adverse events of various therapies for osteoporosis. DATA SOU...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： MacLean C,Newberry S,Maglione M,McMahon M,Ranganath V,Suttorp M,Mojica W,Timmer M,Alexander A,McNamara M,Desai SB,Zhou A,Chen S,Carter J,Tringale C,Valentine D,Johnsen B,Grossman J

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S activity may be compromised in patients with the nephrotic syndrome and contribute to a thrombotic diathesis. Protein S is found in two forms in plasma as free and functionally active protein S, and complexed to C4b-binding protein. When compared with controls, patients with nephrotic syndrome had reduced fu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Vigano-D'Angelo S,D'Angelo A,Kaufman CE Jr,Sholer C,Esmon CT,Comp PC

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flecainide acetate has a recognized proarrhythmic effect in patients treated for ventricular tachycardia. Three patients developed severe ventricular arrhythmias while taking flecainide for atrial fibrillation. Patient 1 had normal ventricular function and idiopathic atrial fibrillation. Treadmill exercise tests durin...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Falk RH

更新日期：1989-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical school graduates are avoiding primary care. The very aspects that once attracted students have been subverted. The breadth of practice that was once appealing has become the breadth of heavy-handed scrutiny, as politicians and business leaders have demanded quality--simplistically defined as dogmatic adherence...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Norenberg DD

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 4.4-year period, nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis was seen in 41 of 110 (38%) patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and accounted for 32% (48/152) of all episodes of clinical pneumonitis. Diffuse alveolar damage was typically a feature of nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis, but neither lu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Suffredini AF,Ognibene FP,Lack EE,Simmons JT,Brenner M,Gill VJ,Lane HC,Fauci AS,Parrillo JE,Masur H

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posttransplantation acute renal failure (ARF) occurs in roughly 25% of recipients of organs from deceased donors. Inflammation in the donor organ is associated with risk for ARF. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether administering corticosteroids to deceased organ donors reduces the incidence and duration of ARF i...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kainz A,Wilflingseder J,Mitterbauer C,Haller M,Burghuber C,Perco P,Langer RM,Heinze G,Oberbauer R

更新日期：2010-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 18 million Americans currently have diabetes mellitus. The economic and human cost of the disease is devastating. In the United States, diabetes is the most common cause of blindness among working-age adults, the most common cause of nontraumatic amputations and end-stage renal disease, and the sixth most co...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Williamson DF,Vinicor F,Bowman BA,Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Primary Prevention Working Group.

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine if the combination of ganciclovir and intravenous cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin is effective in patients with cytomegalovirus pneumonia after bone marrow transplant. DESIGN:Consecutive entry trial with treatment for a minimum of 14 days. PATIENTS:Consecutive sample of 25 patients with bo...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Reed EC,Bowden RA,Dandliker PS,Lilleby KE,Meyers JD

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 289 men with nongonococcal urethritis in a randomized, double-blind study with minocycline, 100 mg once or twice daily for 7 or 21 days. Ureaplasma urealyticum was isolated before treatment from 167 (58%). The pretherapy isolates from 82 men re-examined 6 to 8 days after initiation of treatment were viable....

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Stimson JB,Hale J,Bowie WR,Holmes KK

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether growth hormone replacement in older men improves functional ability. DESIGN:Randomized, controlled, double-blind trial. SETTING:General community. PATIENTS:52 healthy men older than 69 years of age with well-preserved functional ability but low baseline insulin-like growth factor 1 lev...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Papadakis MA,Grady D,Black D,Tierney MJ,Gooding GA,Schambelan M,Grunfeld C

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the literature on prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. DATA SOURCES:The MEDLINE database, conference proceedings, and bibliographies of review articles and book chapters were searched for relevant articles. Primary authors were contacted directly if data were incomplete. STUDY SE...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Mermel LA

更新日期：2000-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease are thought to have painless myocardial ischemia more often than patients without diabetes. We studied 50 consecutive patients with diabetes and 50 consecutive patients without diabetes, all with ischemia, on exercise thallium scintigraphy to show the reliabi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Nesto RW,Phillips RT,Kett KG,Hill T,Perper E,Young E,Leland OS Jr

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 caused an estimated 230,000 deaths and injured approximately 250,000 people. The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps Field Hospital was fully operational on site only 89 hours after the earthquake struck and was capable of providing sophisticated medical care. During th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kreiss Y,Merin O,Peleg K,Levy G,Vinker S,Sagi R,Abargel A,Bartal C,Lin G,Bar A,Bar-On E,Schwaber MJ,Ash N

更新日期：2010-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：Description:The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline Update for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prevention, and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) is a selective update of the prior CKD-MBD guideline published in 2009. The guideline update an...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Ketteler M,Block GA,Evenepoel P,Fukagawa M,Herzog CA,McCann L,Moe SM,Shroff R,Tonelli MA,Toussaint ND,Vervloet MG,Leonard MB

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of ischemic heart disease was studied in a large kindred with familial hypercholesterolemia. Tendon xanthomas, multiple generation transmission, and the appearance of bimodality in the distributions of total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol were found. The segregation ratio was 0.9 in females and...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Streja D,Steiner G,Kwiterovich PO Jr

更新日期：1978-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Studies suggest that vitamin D supplementation may reduce cancer and fracture risks. PURPOSE:To examine the benefits and harms of vitamin D with or without calcium supplementation on clinical outcomes of cancer and fractures in adults. DATA SOURCES:English-language studies identified from MEDLINE and the C...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Chung M,Lee J,Terasawa T,Lau J,Trikalinos TA

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An effective national biosurveillance system expedites outbreak recognition and facilitates response coordination at the federal, state, and local levels. The BioSense system, used at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, incorporates chief complaints but not data from the whole encounter note into...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Elkin PL,Froehling DA,Wahner-Roedler DL,Brown SH,Bailey KR

更新日期：2012-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare inhaled pentamidine with intravenous pentamidine for the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). DESIGN:A randomized trial. SETTING:Community teaching hospital and hospital-based outpatient treatment center. PATIENTS:Twenty-one homosexual men...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Soo Hoo GW,Mohsenifar Z,Meyer RD

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lack of awareness of hypoglycemia is a major limiting factor in the management of type 1 diabetes. OBJECTIVE:To examine whether reduction in the number of episodes of hypoglycemia restores hypoglycemia awareness by influencing beta-adrenergic sensitivity in patients with type 1 diabetes. DESIGN:Controlled ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Fritsche A,Stefan N,Häring H,Gerich J,Stumvoll M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-infected patients with sustained immunologic improvement from antiretroviral therapy may be able to discontinue chemoprophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). OBJECTIVE:To compare PCP incidence in HIV-infected patients who had sustained CD4+ lymphocyte counts greater than 200 cells/mm3 a...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Yangco BG,Von Bargen JC,Moorman AC,Holmberg SD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nurse care management programs for patients with chronic illness have been shown to be safe and effective. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a telephone-mediated nurse care management program for heart failure reduced the rate of rehospitalization for heart failure and for all causes over a 1-year period. DES...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： DeBusk RF,Miller NH,Parker KM,Bandura A,Kraemer HC,Cher DJ,West JA,Fowler MB,Greenwald G

更新日期：2004-10-19 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and efficacy of minocycline in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. DESIGN:A double-blind, randomized, multicenter, 48-week trial of oral minocycline (200 mg/d) or placebo. SETTING:6 clinical centers in the United States. PATIENTS:219 adults with active rheumatoid arthritis who had p...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Tilley BC,Alarcón GS,Heyse SP,Trentham DE,Neuner R,Kaplan DA,Clegg DO,Leisen JC,Buckley L,Cooper SM,Duncan H,Pillemer SR,Tuttleman M,Fowler SE

更新日期：1995-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred ninety-eight patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia received marrow transplants after intensive chemotherapy and total body irradiation. Multivariate analysis showed disease status at time of transplantation to be the most powerful predictor of survival. The probability of long-term survival for alloge...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Thomas ED,Clift RA,Fefer A,Appelbaum FR,Beatty P,Bensinger WI,Buckner CD,Cheever MA,Deeg HJ,Doney K

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When deep venous thrombosis is suspected, objective testing is required to confirm or refute the diagnosis. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the combination of a low clinical suspicion and a normal D -dimer result rules out deep venous thrombosis. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Three tertiary care...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Kearon C,Ginsberg JS,Douketis J,Crowther M,Brill-Edwards P,Weitz JI,Hirsh J

更新日期：2001-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with polymyositis had elevated serum levels of creatine kinase MB isoenzyme. The presence of this isoenzyme is used extensively to diagnose myocardial infarction, but the isoenzyme is also found in sera of patients with primary muscular and neuromuscular disorders. We studied cardiac function in two of ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Larca LJ,Coppola JT,Honig S

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00