BMJ  2007;335 (28 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39288.446493.3A

Editor's Choice

US editor's choice

The last choice

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This is the final US editor's choice column. It's been a pleasure reviewing the journal each week from an American perspective. Here are some attributes of the BMJ that I think make it especially interesting to US readers, with examples from this week's issue.

The journal's global focus is well represented by two articles on HIV testing in resource-poor countries (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39210.582801.BE, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39268.719780.BE) and an international survey to determine cut-offs to define thinness in children and adolescents by using body mass index (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39238.399444.55). The last, by Tim Cole et al, is a particular advance, since undernutrition is better assessed as thinness (low body mass index for age) than as wasting (low weight for height). As Noël Cameron points out in a related editorial (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39281.439178.80), the next step is to test the associations between these new thinness measures and morbidity in children and adolescents.

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