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Thursday, July 4, 2002

Leftovers
Does hydrochlorthiazide (HCTZ) daily lead to increased volume of urination when used to treat hypertension?

Should acetyl cysteine (Mucomyst) routinely be used to prepare patients with renal insufficiency for radiographic dye?

Are morbid obesity and extreme obesity distinguishable terms? (Sense is they both refer to Body Mass Index more than 40.)

Amaurosis fugax. What are the eye findings? What is the treatment?

ACE-Inhibitors in diabetes. Do we wait for microalbuminuria or hypertension to start renal protection?
4:32:20 PM    

Cut Diabetes Onset by 60%
Moderate weight loss (7%) and exercise reduced diabetes onset by 60% in first degree non-diabetic relatives over three years. See the Diabetes Prevention Project (DPP).
3:30:54 PM    

"Was is it a heart attack?"
McKenna and Forfar answer this question in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Troponin is key to European and American new definitions.

Even with renal insufficiency troponin can be prognostic. (See NEJM paper and editorial of June 27).

Here are acute myocardial infarction enzymes graphed over time. (Copyright 2001 WB Saunders Co, from Braunwald "Heart Disease" 6th ed)


Free Medical Journals
British Medical Journal is free online, full text. Rose Zajac, from Good Samaritan's Library suggests freemedicaljournals.com as a resource. Also gives release schedule for over 700 journals.
2:30:25 PM    

© Copyright 2002 Carl Gandola. Comments by: YACCS



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