Is the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Outdated?

Freeman, Anthony G

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“…The number of expected cancers developing in these women was estimated by age specific incidence data from 1988 and the number of person years spent in each age group. The relative risk of patients with cysts developing cancer was 3.24 (95% confidence interval 2.50 to 3.24) (P < 0.0001), which is very similar to the results obtained by other authors [2][3][4] and much greater than that reported by Bruzzi and colleagues.…”

Section: Larger Study Found No Association Between Cyst Type and Breasupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, lofepramine has low toxicity in overdose, 2 is more likely than older tricyclic antidepressants to be prescribed at therapeutic doses, 3 but costs less. 4 While the prescribing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors increased dramatically during our study, the prescribing of lofepramine was relatively stable. The overall discontinuation ratio for lofepramine was 32% compared with 22% for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (P < 0.0001)(table).…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Unfortunately, this new publication adds little to previous publications of data from the same study. [2][3][4] In particular, the authors are unable to identify whether the improved mortality is due to the intravenous insulin given in hospital, the subcutaneous insulin given after discharge, or improvements in patients' general care.…”

Section: Factors Other Than Continued Use Of Subcutaneous Insulin Maymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Breast cysts develop from microcysts which are all of an apocrine type, with high concentrations of potassium and sex steroids from active cellular secretion. 4 In at least a proportion it seems that the epithelium becomes flattened and that active concentrating mechanisms may become less effective so that the contents rapidly become more like plasma. This may simply represent an aging change of a single cyst type.…”

Section: Consistency Of Cyst Type Needs To Be Knownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4 Excluding this drug from their main analysis would therefore be expected to have increased the difference they found in the relative tolerability between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and typical tricyclic antidepressants.…”

Section: Analysis Should Discriminate Between Newer and Older Tricyclmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evidence exists from study of non-insulin dependent diabetes in Japan Editor-In his editorial prompted by the publication of the DIGAMI (diabetes mellitus, insulin glucose infusion in acute myocardial infarction) trial, 1 Malcolm Nattrass states that (in non-insulin dependent diabetes) "evidence [is] still awaited for a relation between diabetic control and microvascular complications." 2 It is true that we all await with interest the results of the United Kingdom prospective diabetes study, but some evidence does already exist. Although it is not directly relevant to Nattrass's editorial, in other contexts I have been surprised that it is rarely discussed and is almost never referenced in publications written by authors working on diabetes outside Asia and Australasia. The study to which I refer is the Kumamoto study. 3 This randomised 110 patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes (half with existing microvascular complications and half without) into a group treated with multiple injections and a group given normal care. After six years of follow up, both retinopathy and nephropathy were convincingly less common in the group treated with multiple injections-both the primary prevention cohort and the secondary prevention cohort. While I do not necessarily advocate this trial as definitive evidence of the same effect as that in the diabetes control and complications trial in non-insulin dependent diabetes, it seems a pity that it is discussed so rarely outside Asia and Australasia. This may be due to failure on our part to take note of studies published in journals from other continents. It may also be due to reservations, on the part of those who do know about the study, about whether results obtained in Japanese patients (who were, for example, not obese) also apply to populations of patients that might have different characteristics and different therapeutic responses. Rhys Williams Professor of epidemiology and public health Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds LS2 9PL 1 Malmberg K for the DIGAMI Study Group. Prospective randomised study of intensive insulin treatment on long term survival after acute myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes mellitus.

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Is the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Outdated?

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

Obstructive sleep apnoea

Obstructive sleep apnoea

Basic Examination of Blood and Bone Marrow

Diagnosing and managing polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis

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