Facts and ideas from anywhere

William Clifford Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics covered:

Life's master molecule
Dolly dead
Dietary intake of fruits, vegetables, and fat
Usefulness of statins for preventing cardiovascular events in persons with mild chronic renal insufficiency
Food portion sizes
Fat city
Pro “gurgitators”
Sleep-disordered breathing among professional football players
Continuing decrease in death rates from coronary heart disease
Changing incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Treating systemic hypertension with diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and calcium antagonists
Alcohol, stroke, and acute myocardial infarction
Effects of antiretroviral therapy on cardiovascular risk factors
Nephron number and systemic hypertension
Vitamin A and bone fracture
Prognostic significance of community-acquired pneumonia in persons >=65 years of age
Prevalence of arthritis or chronic joint symptoms among adults in the USA
Effect of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction on prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Death during childhood
Comparison of mortality, severe morbidity, and injury in children living with one parent vs those living with both parents
Parental mortality after offspring mortality
Twenty priorities in health care
US population
Cities with the best manners
Head turning while kissing
Physicians on strike
Victor Herbert, MD (1927-2002)