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Therapeutics

• Review: home or self blood pressure monitoring improves clinic blood pressure in essential hypertension (30 March, 2005)
• Review: thrombolytic treatment does not reduce the risk of recurrent pulmonary embolism and death more than heparin (30 March, 2005)
• Review: β blockers reduce mortality and therapy withdrawal in heart failure but increase dizziness and bradycardia (30 March, 2005)
• Atorvastatin reduced major cardiovascular disease events in type 2 diabetes mellitus (30 March, 2005) Free
• Isosorbide dinitrate plus hydralazine was effective for advanced heart failure in black patients (30 March, 2005)
• Review: antidepressants increase clinical response and remission in bipolar depression without increasing induction of mania (30 March, 2005)
• Fluoxetine plus cognitive behavioural therapy was most effective for adolescents with major depressive disorder (30 March, 2005)
• Antenatal infection screening reduced preterm delivery (30 March, 2005)
• Prophylactic use of LMWH plus intermittent pneumatic compression prevented DVT in hip or knee arthroplasty (30 March, 2005)
• Review: antiplatelet agents (particularly aspirin) reduce the incidence of pre-eclampsia in women at risk (30 March, 2005)
• Review: oestrogen improves symptoms of overactive bladder in postmenopausal women (30 March, 2005)
• A multifaceted, home based, environmental intervention modestly reduced asthma morbidity in children with atopic asthma (30 March, 2005)
• Adenotonsillectomy marginally reduced sore throat episodes compared with watchful waiting in children (30 March, 2005)
• Etidronate, calcium, or both did not reduce fracture rates in patients with asthma receiving glucocorticoid treatment (30 March, 2005)