11 March 2000(vol 320, issue 7236)

This Week In the BMJ

• New Zealand and British risk charts are easier to use in primary care than Sheffield table

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• NHS needs to implement coronary risk reduction for the 10% of population at high risk

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• Hypertensive patients don't gain from computerised risk assessment

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• New table for assessing coronary risk has high specificity and sensitivit

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• Risk based guidelines may improve hypertension treatment

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• Framingham model for risk of heart disease fits a British population well

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Editorials

• Guidelines on preventing cardiovascular disease in clinical practice

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• Promoting the health of looked after children

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• Good practice in sterilisation

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• Asthma drug delivery devices for children

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Letters

• Managing self poisoning

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• Health minister clarifies Care Standards Bill

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• Differentiating between audit and research

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• Authors take issue with commentary on their paper

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• Mortality prediction model is preferable to APACHE

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• Development and evaluation committees' methods for appraising new drugs

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• Osteoporosis and coeliac disease

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• Hospital of the future

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• Seasonality of birth in children with diabetes

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• Rationing certainly exists in treatment for cancer

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• Distress symptoms may be easy to miss

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• Centralisation of cancer services in rural areas has disadvantages

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News

• Heart disease framework aims to cut deaths in England

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• Doctors fail to follow advice in giving tPA

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• Cannabinoids might reduce spasticity in multiple sclerosis

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• In brief

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• Australian government attacked for tobacco funding

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• UN condemns Australian plans for “safe injecting rooms”

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• US launches new clinical trials database

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• Patients must disclose infectious diseases, Israeli doctors say

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• India eradicates guinea worm disease

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• Malaria epidemic expected in Mozambique

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• Surgeon in kidney inquiry himself faces surgery suit

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• Scientists find a new way around blood clotting disorders

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• Romanian national insurance cannot cover GPs' prescriptions

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Clinical Reviews

• Acute ischaemic stroke

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• Unnecessary surgical treatment of fungal kerions in children

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• Non-invasive methods of arterial and venous assessment

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Minerva

• Minerva

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Editor's Choice

• Being smarter about preventing heart disease

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• Being smarter about preventing heart disease

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

• College inquiry clears hospital's cardiology services

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• Blair tackled on heart deaths

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• Cell transplantation aids spinal cord repair in rats

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Papers

• Coronary and cardiovascular risk estimation for primary prevention:validation of a new Sheffield table in the 1995 Scottish health survey population

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• Using the Framingham model to predict heart disease in the United Kingdom: retrospective study

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• Should treatment recommendations for lipid lowering drugs be based on absolute coronary risk or risk reduction?

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• Allergy associated with ciprofloxacin

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General practice

• Using thresholds based on risk of cardiovascular disease to target treatment for hypertension: modelling events averted and number treated

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• Evaluation of computer based clinical decision support system and risk chart for management of hypertension in primary care: randomised controlled trial

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• Risk assessment in primary prevention of coronary heart disease: randomised comparison of three scoring methods

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Education and debate

• Estimating cardiovascular risk for primary prevention: outstanding questions for primary care

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• Joint British recommendations on prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice: summary

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• Updated New Zealand cardiovascular disease risk-benefit prediction guide

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MEDICOPOLITICAL DIGEST

• BMA wants open debate on regulation of doctorsHealth secretary wants to change NHS workforce planningPM replies on funding promise

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Books

• The Nazi War on Cancer

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• Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine

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TV

• Some talk of genocide

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WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

• Risk of cardiovascular disease

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Personal View

• “Absolute” is inappropriate for quantitative risk estimation

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Soundings

• Seize the day

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Fillers

• Discovery of a Temple of Æsculapius

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• Mother's milk

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• A very peculiar dream

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Obituary

• Donald Varley BatemanClive Andrew DevallMargaret Joan GodleyUrsula JamesRodney George Mansfield JonesJames Montague Somerville KnottNikhil Dattatraya KotibhaskarKookal Ramunni KrishnanGeorge Brian LockeKrishna Kumar SinhaRodney Julian WalshFrederick Brian Barclay Weston

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