ALLHAT findings are 'color blind' in showing diuretics work better for high blood pressure
...Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial" (ALLHAT), confirms earlier findings that diuretics rather than newer, more expensive drugs such as ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, or beta blockers should be preferred as a first therapy for most patients. The multi-center ALLHAT study is conducted under a Na...ALLHAT study findings for racial sub-groups show diuretics work better for high blood pressure
...tional Institutes of Health. This analysis by race confirms earlier findings on the effectiveness of diuretics...han alternatives in black patients. "This analysis confirms and extends to all races ALLHAT's original conclusion that diuretics are the right first-line therap...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
... The study also further confirms the importance of the dopamine system in understanding and treating psychosis. "The bottom-line, take-home message is that there are a lot of different things that all seem to converge on this system," Grandy said. "It's like all roads lead to Rome. ...Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
... well. NT-proBNP performed exceptionally well and confirms the value of the natriuretic peptide class of cardiac biomarkers as a whole. We believe NT-proBNP testing should now become a routine component of evaluation for patients with shortness of breath in emergency department settings." Januzzi is an ass...Study shows symptom-driven therapy may be ok for some adults with mild persistent asthma
...onal Institutes of Health. "If additional research confirms these findings, then some of these patients may be able to safely treat their asthma with intermittent medication and avoid the added expense and inconvenience of daily therapy. As for all asthma patients, however, individuals should work closely wit...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
... of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research confirms that college students tend to overestimate volumes, over-pour drinks, and under-report levels of consumption. However, educational feedback regarding definitions of standard drinks appears to improve students' understanding of how much they actually...Columbia study shows women benefit from drug-eluting stents as much as men
... new study from Columbia University Medical Center confirms that women respond as well as men to treatment with drug-eluting stents. Despite the fact that symptomatic coronary disease afflicts men and women equally, only 33 percent of the 1.2 million interventional procedures conducted in the U.S. each year a...Dermatologists use knowledge of patterns to recognize melanoma
... approach, is worth being assessed. Our study also confirms how much a recent change is important for a reliable diagnosis of MM. In this regard, the fact that an MM was found in nine (1.68 percent) of the 535 nevi that were removed only to reassure the patient should lead physicians to listen carefully to pa...Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
...eater efforts to reduce binge drinking. "Our study confirms what we were beginning to suspect and dreading to learn," said Quinlan, "that this is a huge problem and we are losing ground."...Data suggest bypass surgery free of long-term brain effects
...ts." The authors find that the existing literature confirms the existence of mild deficits in the period up to three months after surgery, possibly due to minor disruption in blood flow that can be result from any major surgery, or other factors associated with surgery such as inflammation or complications of...Comprehensive treatment improves cognitive impairment in heart failure patients
...increased cognitive performance at discharge. This confirms the need for a comprehensive approach to heart failure in older populations."...Treating children with chronic hepatitis C
...otocol ended. "The data of this uncontrolled study confirms that treatment with recombinant peginterferon-alfa-2b plus ribavirin in children and adolescents with chronic hepatitis C was well tolerated and yielded an encouraging result with 59 percent sustained viral response," the authors report. While the re...Breast CT reaches clinical testing: May improve on mammography
...dle biopsy of the suspicious tissue. If the trial confirms that breast CT detects tumors as well as mammography, as investigators expect, the next step will be a larger trial to determine whether the new technology can indeed detect tumors earlier than mammography. Boone believes that a more extensive trial ...Popular procedures evaluated for diagnostic accuracy and treatment effectiveness
...patients with small intestine diseases. "Our study confirms previous study findings that established the accuracy of innovative wireless capsule technology in identifying intestinal polyps," said Josep Llach, MD, lead study author from the Endoscopy Unit of the University of Barcelona in Spain. "This non-inv...Procedure setting, technique and cost are key for effective colorectal cancer screening
...ate and was less expensive than CTC. "This study confirms that standard colonoscopy is still the best and most cost-effective option for an accurate diagnosis of colon cancer, based on the technologies that are currently available," said Don Rockey, M.D., of Duke University and senior author of the study. ...Metabolic syndrome prevalent in heart attack patients
...is finding has important clinical implications and confirms the importance of evaluating glycemic control during the acute phase of MI."...A warning for women on HRT don't skip your next mammogram
...ancers would have been found," she says. The study confirms the results of previous work by the same researchers who have found that higher breast density is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Breast density the glandular tissue in the breast that appears white on mammogram is higher in som...Antibiotics appear to have little benefit for uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infections
...y effectiveness of antibiotics and a recent review confirms a moderate effect of antibiotics on illness course; the debate continues unabated about the role of antibiotics because these reviews are relatively small. There are also concerns about complications if antibiotics are not prescribed and debate about...Evacuation not automatically best for health during chemical incidents
...on in this chemical incident, they conclude, which confirms existing expert advice recommending sheltering in serious chemical air pollution incidents. An accompanying commentary agrees that existing emergency planning advice also advocates sheltering during chemical air pollution incidents for those living n...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
...routine childhood immunizations. While their study confirms a suboptimal quality of outpatient care overall, Ma and Stafford were surprised by the results regarding equality of care. "When we set out to do the study, we expected to see these disparities," Ma said. "But our result was contrary to our hypothesi...