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Therapeutics

• Review: diabetes is not a coronary disease equivalent (30 September, 2009)
• Screening for CAD in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes did not reduce risk of cardiac events (30 September, 2009)
• Review: bariatric surgery reduces weight and improves type 2 diabetes in adults (30 September, 2009)
• Adding metformin to insulin did not improve a composite of microvascular and macrovascular disease in type 2 diabetes (30 September, 2009)
• Oral anticoagulant therapy safely prevented stroke in older patients with atrial fibrillation (30 September, 2009)
• Review: antenatal magnesium sulphate prevents cerebral palsy in preterm infants (30 September, 2009)
• Review: combining 2 classes of blood pressure–lowering drugs has an approximately additive effect on systolic blood pressure (30 September, 2009)
• Review: continuous positive airway pressure devices are effective and cost-effective for obstructive sleep apnoea (30 September, 2009)
• Review: nicotine replacement therapy as assisted “reduction-to-stop” reduces smoking and sustains abstinence in smokers (30 September, 2009) Free
• Blood pressure–lowering did not improve short-term mortality or dependency in acute stroke and hypertension (30 September, 2009)
• A stepped-care prevention programme decreased depression and anxiety disorders in elderly patients (30 September, 2009)
• Review: differences in efficacy and acceptability exist for 12 new-generation antidepressants for major depression (30 September, 2009)
• Manuka honey improved wound healing in patients with sloughy venous leg ulcers (30 September, 2009)
• Review: oral vitamin D prevents non-vertebral and hip fractures in a dose-dependent manner in patients ⩾65 years of age (30 September, 2009)