Fibrinogen as a cardiovascular risk factor: a meta-analysis and review of the literature.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telaprevir (TVR) plus peginterferon-α2a (PEG-IFN-α2a) and ribavirin substantially increases treatment efficacy for genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection versus PEG-IFN-α2a-ribavirin alone. Its safety and efficacy in patients with HCV and HIV-1 are unknown. OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and e...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sulkowski MS,Sherman KE,Dieterich DT,Bsharat M,Mahnke L,Rockstroh JK,Gharakhanian S,McCallister S,Henshaw J,Girard PM,Adiwijaya B,Garg V,Rubin RA,Adda N,Soriano V

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The accuracy and harms of brief cognitive tests for identifying clinical Alzheimer-type dementia (CATD) are uncertain. PURPOSE:To summarize evidence on accuracy and harms of brief cognitive tests for CATD in older adults with suspected cognitive impairment. DATA SOURCES:Electronic bibliographic databases (...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hemmy LS,Linskens EJ,Silverman PC,Miller MA,Talley KMC,Taylor BC,Ouellette JM,Greer NL,Wilt TJ,Butler M,Fink HA

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients referred for cancer chemotherapy were found to be chronic, asymptomatic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers. They had normal serum aminotransferase levels, but their sera were positive for HGsAg and antibody to hepatitis B e antigen. Both patients developed acute, icteric hepatitis within 3 month...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hoofnagle JH,Dusheiko GM,Schafer DF,Jones EA,Micetich KC,Young RC,Costa J

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：DESCRIPTION:Update of the 2005 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). METHODS:The USPSTF commissioned a systematic review that assessed the evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for AAA and strategies for managing small (3.0 to 5.4 cm) sc...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： LeFevre ML,U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was studied in a group of patients with cancer who received transfusion of blood components harvested from a single, asymptomatic, seropositive donor. Of ten living recipients, nine had antibodies to the virus in fresh or cryopreserved sera at a median of 384 days...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson KC,Gorgone BC,Marlink RG,Ferriani R,Essex ME,Benz PM,Groopman JE

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the use of thyroid function tests to monitor therapy in patients taking levothyroxine. DATA IDENTIFICATION:Studies published between 1966 and January 1990 were identified through computer searches and references of identified studies. STUDY SELECTION:Studies that included a careful description of ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Helfand M,Crapo LM

更新日期：1990-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Five of 70 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus seen over a 5-year period had peripheral blood films suggestive of hyposplenism. Technetium-99m-sulfur colloid scans showed no splenic activity in three patients. One of these three patients, who had a spontaneous remission of persistent thrombocytopenia concurrent...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dillon AM,Stein HB,English RA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the safety of withholding anticoagulant therapy in pregnant patients with clinically suspected deep-vein thrombosis who have negative results by serial impedance plethysmography. DESIGN:Prospective study evaluating prognosis by long-term follow-up to 3 months postpartum in all patients. S...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hull RD,Raskob GE,Carter CJ

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To critically assess original studies evaluating the role of preoperative pulmonary function testing in predicting postoperative outcomes. DESIGN:MEDLINE search of English-language articles from 1966 to 1987 using the following medical subjects headings respiratory function tests, lung, lung diseases, ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Zibrak JD,O'Donnell CR,Marton K

更新日期：1990-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the rate of use of prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in high-risk hospital patients. DESIGN:A retrospective medical record review. SETTING:A community-wide study in 16 short-stay hospitals in central Massachusetts. PATIENTS:A total of 2017 patients with multiple risk factors for venous th...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anderson FA Jr,Wheeler HB,Goldberg RJ,Hosmer DW,Forcier A,Patwardhan NA

更新日期：1991-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated candidiasis has become an important infection, particularly in immunocompromised and postoperative patients. Although serologic tests may, in some settings, facilitate a premortem diagnosis, the disease is usually diagnosed by comprehensive clinical evaluation. Detection of the relatively newly recognized...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Edwards JE Jr,Lehrer RI,Stiehm ER,Fischer TJ,Young LS

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soon, half of all physicians may be married to other physicians (that is, in dual-doctor families). Little is known about how marriage to another physician affects physicians themselves. OBJECTIVE:To learn how physicians in dual-doctor families differ from other physicians in their professional and family l...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Sobecks NW,Justice AC,Hinze S,Chirayath HT,Lasek RJ,Chren MM,Aucott J,Juknialis B,Fortinsky R,Youngner S,Landefeld CS

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dietary and lifestyle modification efforts are the primary treatments for people who are obese or overweight. The effect of dietary counseling on long-term weight change is unclear. PURPOSE:To perform a meta-analysis of the effect of dietary counseling compared with usual care on body mass index (BMI) over ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Dansinger ML,Tatsioni A,Wong JB,Chung M,Balk EM

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1950s witnessed prodigious growth in our knowledge of the chemical nature of the gene, the mechanisms by which the information inherent in its sequence of nucleotide units was conveyed to the cell's machinery for synthesizing proteins, and the mode of operation of that machinery. Watson and Crick raised the curtai...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hoagland MB

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the major cancer killer of women in the United States. Recent advances in therapy promise more effective control of this illness. The development of hormone receptor analysis permits us to better understand the mechanisms of action of steroid and peptide hormones and increases the likelihood of using ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors：

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to surge in the United States and globally. OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology of COVID-19-related critical illness, including trends in outcomes and care delivery. DESIGN:Single-health system, multihospital retrospective cohort study. SETTING...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Anesi GL,Jablonski J,Harhay MO,Atkins JH,Bajaj J,Baston C,Brennan PJ,Candeloro CL,Catalano LM,Cereda MF,Chandler JM,Christie JD,Collins T,Courtright KR,Fuchs BD,Gordon E,Greenwood JC,Gudowski S,Hanish A,Hanson Iii C

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:More than half of enrollees in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are also covered by Medicare and can choose to receive their prescriptions from VA or from Medicare-participating providers. Such dual-system care may lead to unsafe opioid use if providers in these 2 systems do not coordinate care o...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Moyo P,Zhao X,Thorpe CT,Thorpe JM,Sileanu FE,Cashy JP,Hale JA,Mor MK,Radomski TR,Donohue JM,Hausmann LRM,Hanlon JT,Good CB,Fine MJ,Gellad WF

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-nine cases of Legionnaires' disease in a 16-month period were identified in visitors to and residents of Bloomington, Indiana. Thirty-five patients had spent at least one night at the Indiana Memorial Union in the 2 weeks before becoming ill. Five of 32 sporadic cases nationwide between 1 January and 31 March 1...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Politi BD,Fraser DW,Mallison GF,Mohatt JV,Morris GK,Patton CM,Feeley JC,Telle RD,Bennett JV

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 200 years digitalis compounds have been used to treat atrial fibrillation. The rapid ventricular response to atrial fibrillation is frequently treated with digoxin to produce a controlled heart rate. Digoxin has also been proposed as a treatment for terminating recent-onset atrial fibrillation, for maintainin...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Falk RH,Leavitt JI

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the status of emergency, urgent, routine, and selective angiography after intravenous thrombolytic therapy. DATA SOURCES:Relevant English-language articles published from January 1985 to July 1990 were identified through MEDLINE. STUDY SELECTION:For emergency angiography, four major randomized studi...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Topol EJ,Holmes DR,Rogers WJ

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the temporal characteristics of cocaine-induced coronary vasoconstriction in humans and to assess the relation between cocaine-induced coronary vasoconstriction and the blood concentration of cocaine and its main metabolites. DESIGN:Randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial. SETTING:Card...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Brogan WC 3rd,Lange RA,Glamann DB,Hillis LD

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective health care is a core determinant of successful aging, and medications are one of the most important therapeutic tools of health care providers. Most older adults use at least one prescription drug. Costs for these drugs are a substantial out-of-pocket expense for Medicare beneficiaries, and low-income older...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Murray MD,Callahan CM

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Chinese translation BACKGROUND:Black persons are more likely than white persons to be diagnosed with colorectal cancer and to die from it. The extent to which genetic or biological factors versus disparities in screening rates explain this variance remains controversial. OBJECTIVE:To define the prevalence ...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Schroy PC 3rd,Coe A,Chen CA,O'Brien MJ,Heeren TC

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the use of non-potassium-sparing diuretics and beta-blockers is associated with an excess risk for sudden cardiac death in hypertensive patients. DESIGN:Case-control study. SETTING:Rotterdam, the Netherlands. PATIENTS:257 case-patients who had died suddenly while receiving drug therapy...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Hoes AW,Grobbee DE,Lubsen J,Man in 't Veld AJ,van der Does E,Hofman A

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 2 years, the use of pulsed Doppler echocardiography for assessing left ventricular diastolic function has received increased attention. This method is based on measurements derived from a waveform that reflects the velocity of blood flow through the mitral valve during ventricular filling. The techniqu...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Spirito P,Maron BJ

更新日期：1988-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Some important health policy topics, such as those related to the delivery, organization, and financing of health care, present substantial challenges to established methods for evidence synthesis. For example, such reviews may ask: What is the effect of for-profit versus not-for-profit delivery of care on patient out...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Bravata DM,McDonald KM,Shojania KG,Sundaram V,Owens DK

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Iron chelation therapy (ICT) in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) has not been evaluated in randomized studies. Objective:To evaluate event-free survival (EFS) and safety of ICT in iron-overloaded patients with low- or intermediate-1-risk MDS. Design:Multicenter, randomized, double-b...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Angelucci E,Li J,Greenberg P,Wu D,Hou M,Montano Figueroa EH,Rodriguez MG,Dong X,Ghosh J,Izquierdo M,Garcia-Manero G,TELESTO Study Investigators.

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the radiofrequency ablation method, describe the technique, and discuss the indications, results, and limitations of its use in patients with cardiac tachyarrhythmias. DATA SOURCES:Peer-reviewed reports in the literature by clinical investigators who use radiofrequency catheter ablation as identified...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Manolis AS,Wang PJ,Estes NA 3rd

更新日期：1994-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dietary trans fat increases risk for coronary heart disease. In 2006, New York City (NYC) passed the first regulation in the United States restricting trans fat use in restaurants. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of the NYC regulation on the trans and saturated fat content of fast-food purchases. DESIGN:Cro...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Angell SY,Cobb LK,Curtis CJ,Konty KJ,Silver LD

更新日期：2012-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health care-associated infections from invasive medical devices in the intensive care unit (ICU) are a major threat to patient safety. Most published studies of ICU-acquired infections have come from industrialized western countries. In a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Nosocomial I...

journal_title：Annals of internal medicine

authors： Rosenthal VD,Maki DG,Salomao R,Moreno CA,Mehta Y,Higuera F,Cuellar LE,Arikan OA,Abouqal R,Leblebicioglu H,International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium.

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00