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Cardiovascular Forum

• Reduction in Blood Pressure With Statins: Results From the UCSD Statin Study, a Randomized Trial.—Arch Intern Med 2008 4;168(7):721-7
• Fenofibrate reduces lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2 mass and oxidative lipids in hypertriglyceridemic subjects with the metabolic syndrome.—Am Heart J 2008 3;155(3):499.e9-16
• Effects of Maximal Doses of Atorvastatin Versus Rosuvastatin on Small Dense Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels.—Am J Cardiol 2008 2;101(3):315-318

Diabetes Forum

• Pleiotrophic and anti-inflammatory effects of pioglitazone precede the metabolic activity in type 2 diabetic patients with coronary artery disease.—Atherosclerosis 2008 3;197(1):311-7
• Consensus statement on the worldwide standardization of the hemoglobin A1C measurement: the American Diabetes Association, European Association for the Study of Diabetes, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, and the International Diabetes Federation.—Diabetes Care 2007 9;30(9):2399-400
• Results of the glucose-lowering effect of WelChol study (GLOWS): a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study evaluating the effect of colesevelam hydrochloride on glycemic control in subjects with type 2 diabetes.—Clin Ther 2007 1;29(1):74-83

Growth Forum

• Growth Hormone Decreases Visceral Fat and Improves Cardiovascular Risk Markers in Women with Hypopituitarism: a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study.—J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 4;():
• Measurement of basal growth hormone (GH) is a useful test of disease activity in treated acromegalic patients.—Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2008 1;68(1):36-41
• Height velocity targets from the national cooperative growth study for first-year growth hormone responses in short children.—J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 2;93(2):352-7

Nephrology Forum

• Usefulness of statin pretreatment to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy and to improve long-term outcome in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.—Am J Cardiol 2008 2;101(3):279-85
• Can predialysis hypertension prevent intradialytic hypotension in hemodialysis patients?—Nephron Clin Pract 2006 1;103(4):c137-43
• Vitamin D levels and early mortality among incident hemodialysis patients.—Kidney Int 2007 10;72(8):1004-13

Rheumatology Forum

• Disease remission and sustained halting of radiographic progression with combination etanercept and methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.—Arthritis Rheum 2007 12;56(12):3928-39
• Anti-CCP revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis.—Ann Rheum Dis 2008 1;():
• Efficacy and safety of the selective co-stimulation modulator abatacept following 2 years of treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to anti-TNF therapy.—Ann Rheum Dis 2007 10;():

Primary Care Forum

• Effect of rimonabant on blood pressure in overweight/obese patients with/without co-morbidities: analysis of pooled RIO study results.—J Hypertens 2008 2;26(2):357-367
• Relation of cumulative weight burden to vascular endothelial dysfunction in obesity.—Am J Cardiol 2008 1;101(1):98-101
• Is glycemic control improving in U.S. adults?—Diabetes Care 2008 1;31(1):81-6

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