Lower blood pressure targets: to whom do they apply?

Lower blood pressure targets: to whom do they apply?

General cardiology TO WHOM DO THE RESEARCH FINDINGS APPLY?

When a new intervention (drug, procedure or device) becomes mainstream care, one hopes that all groups of patients for whom this intervention is intended have been properly studied and, thus, are well defined. This ideal situation rarely applies. The clinical trials conducted to determine efficacy and safety of new interventions are typically designed to be feasible and time and cost efficient....

Psychopathology of EDNOS patients: To whom do they compare?

Do the levels of psychopathology displayed by patients with an eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) more closely resemble those displayed by full-criteria anorexia and bulimia nervosa patients than they do those of non-eatingdisorder controls? Three groups of eating disorder patients (anorexia nervosa, n=27; bulimia nervosa, n=23; EDNOS, n=19) and a group of non-eating-disorder contr...

Tracking family medicine graduates. Where do they go, what services do they provide and whom do they see?

BACKGROUND There are continued concerns over an adequate supply of family physicians (FPs) practicing in Canada. While most resource planning has focused on intake into postgraduate education, less information is available on what postgraduate medical training yields. We therefore undertook a study of Family Medicine (FM) graduates from the University of Toronto (U of T) to determine the type o...

Nocturnal blood pressure versus nondipping pattern: what do they mean?

Nocturnal Blood Pressure Versus Nondipping Pattern: What Do They Mean? Print ISSN: 0194-911X. Online ISSN: 1524-4563 Copyright © 2007 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Hypertension doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.101337 2008;51:41-42; originally published online December 10, 2007; Hyper...