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Therapeutics

• Long term use of eicosapentaenoic acid reduced major coronary events in hypercholesterolaemia (1 October, 2007)
• Hormone therapy for younger women may not increase CHD risk during 5–7 years follow-up, but stroke risk was increased independent of age (1 October, 2007)
• The Atkins diet led to more weight loss than the Zone diet in overweight and obese premenopausal women at 12 months (1 October, 2007)
• A care management intervention improved depression after stroke (1 October, 2007)
• A self-management approach to patient education for type 2 diabetes was more effective than a didactic approach (1 October, 2007)
• Carvedilol was more effective than metoprolol for preventing cardiovascular events in heart failure (1 October, 2007)
• An escalating higher energy regimen was better than a fixed lower energy regimen for defibrillation in out of hospital cardiac arrest (1 October, 2007)
• 6 or 3 months of anticoagulant therapy did not differ for treatment failure in patients with DVT, PE, or both (1 October, 2007)
• Ibuprofen was more effective than codeine or acetaminophen for musculoskeletal pain in children (1 October, 2007)
• A once yearly IV infusion of zoledronic acid prevented fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (1 October, 2007)
• 10 day sequential therapy was more effective than 10 day triple drug therapy for eradicating Helicobacter pylori infection

  (1 October, 2007)
• Review: partner notification interventions can reduce sexually transmitted infections (1 October, 2007)
• Ambulatory titration of continuous positive airway pressure was as effective as polysomnography for obstructive sleep apnoea (1 October, 2007)