644: How low is too low: peripartum hemorrhage risk among women with thrombocytopenia

How low is too low? Cardiac risks with anemia

Despite the increasing availability of data supporting more restrictive transfusion practices, the risks and benefits of transfusing critically ill patients continue to evoke controversy. Past retrospective and observational studies suggested that liberal transfusion strategies were more beneficial in patients whose hematocrit levels fell below 30%. An expanding body of literature suggests that...

Is Inflation Too Low?

W hat is today’s big monetary policy issue? It is, surely, the extraordinary volatility of the financial markets and the wide quality spreads that opened up between riskier bonds and Treasury bonds following the Russian default in mid-August 1998. No one forecast these problems; the financial-market upset certainly was not a real, live policy issue back in the spring and early summer. We should...

Is the recommended daily iron intake for women too low?

Adherence to cervical screening in the era of human papillomavirus vaccination: how low is too low?

Human papillomavirus vaccine prevents infection by two major oncogenic types of the virus. Continued screening is needed in vaccinated women to prevent cancers caused by high-risk types not included in the vaccine. An exaggerated sense of protection from the vaccine could lead to a decline in the rate of screening among vaccinated women, which in principle could lead to an increase in the incid...

Low dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke among women.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous research suggests greater risk of coronary heart disease with lower levels of the adrenal steroid dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS). No studies have examined the association between DHEAS and risk of ischemic stroke. DHEAS may influence ischemic stroke risk through atherosclerotic-related mechanisms (endothelial function and smooth muscle cell proliferation)...