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One iron pill a day keeps fatigue away? 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on Vaucher P , Druais PL, Waldvogel S, et al.. Effect of iron supplementation on fatigue in nonanemic menstruating women with low ferritin: a randomised controlled trial. CMAJ 2012 ; 18...
Home-like environments for labour and birth: benefits for women and babies 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on: Hodnett ED , Downe S, Walsh D. Alternative versus conventional institutional settings for birth. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012 ; 8 : CD000012 Context In the past 100 years, care...
Meta-analysing randomised controlled trials with omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular disease 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on Kwak SM , Myung SK, Lee YJ, et al..; for the Korean Meta-analysis Study Group. Efficacy of omega-3 fatty acid supplements (eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid) in the secon...
N-3 fatty acids did not reduce major cardiovascular events in patients with dysglycaemia 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on Bosch J , Gerstein HC, Dagenais GR, et al.. ORIGIN Trial Investigators. n-3 fatty acids and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with dysglycemia. N Engl J Med 2012 ; 367 : 309 –18 C...
Lower blood pressure associated with higher mortality in retrospective study of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on Vamos EP , Harris M, Millett C, et al.. Association of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and all cause mortality in people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: retrospective coho...
Physicians' gut feeling is useful in diagnosing serious infection in children 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on: Van den Bruel A , Thompson M, Buntinx F, et al.. Clinicians’ gut feeling about serious infections in children: observational study. BMJ 2012 ; 345 : e6144 . Context With the adven...
Increased incidence of cardiovascular disease: are low-carbohydrate-high-protein diets truly to blame? 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on: Lagiou P , Sandin S, Lof M, et al.. Low carbohydrate-high protein diet and incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Swedish women: prospective cohort study. BMJ 2012 ; 344 : :e4026 ....
Artificial and sugar-sweetened beverages are associated with increased incidence of hypertension 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on: Cohen L , Curhan G, Forman J. Association of sweetened beverage intake with incident hypertension. J Gen Intern Med 201227 : 1127 –34. Context Hypertension is one of the major ris...
Single surgical procedure with general anaesthesia early in life is associated with subsequent impaired language development and cognitive function 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on: Ing C , Dimaggio C, Whitehouse A, et al.. Long-term differences in language and cognitive function after childhood exposure to anesthesia. Pediatrics 2012 ; 130 : e476 –85. Context...
Exposure to diagnostic levels of radiation prior to age 30 increases the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1/2 carriers 5 Jul 2013 | 04:39 pm
Commentary on: Pijpe A , Andrieu N, Easton DF, et al.., on behalf of GENEPSO, EMBRACE, and HEBON. Exposure to diagnostic radiation and risk of breast cancer among carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations: ret...
