An Alternative View of Childhood Blood Pressure Screening

Screening for diabetes--an alternative view.

Brest Cancer Screening—An Alternative View Point

The purpose of breast cancer screening is to save lives. To have confidence that the national programme can achieve this aim it must be shown firstly that mortality reductions have been conclusively demonstrated in a relevant pilot study and secondly that these benefits can be reproduced in everyday practice. The Forrest report [1] was released when the encouraging results of the Health Insuran...

Biofeedback History: An Alternative View

The tapestry of biofeedback history has been woven from many independent threads. Some contributors started with much vigor and nurtured others, and then they faded away. Yet they seeded ideas that the next generation rediscovered as their own. Others blossomed and disappeared, whereas still others have continued to actively nurture the field. Interest in biofeedback has waxed and waned in resp...

Permissive hypofiltration: an alternative view

If permissive hypercapnia is used in the context of protective ventilation for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, it must be highlighted that the alveoli in these patients are still exposed to significant stress. Similarly, early renal replacement therapy is not necessarily a protective therapy for acute kidney injury and loop diuretics are not necessarily harmful. It is conceiv...

Blood pressure and its significance in childhood.

Hypertension is an important accelerator of the atherosclerotic process. Detection in childhood may be important although longitudinal data are lacking of the prognosis of blood pressure measurement in childhood through adult life. The blood pressure of children should be measured. In populations where salt intake is high, values for blood pressure increase with age. Populations who eat small q...