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Therapeutics

• Review: medication adjustment based on fractional exhaled nitric oxide did not prevent asthma exacerbations (30 January, 2009)
• Benefits of early intensive glucose control to prevent diabetes complications were sustained for up to 10 years (30 January, 2009)
• Benefits of tight blood pressure control to prevent diabetes complications were not sustained (30 January, 2009)
• A combination of telmisartan and ramipril increased renal outcomes in vascular disease or diabetes (30 January, 2009)
• General practitioners’ advice to use topical rather than oral ibuprofen resulted in equivalent effects on chronic knee pain (30 January, 2009)
• Alexander technique lessons were effective for chronic or recurrent back pain at 1 year (30 January, 2009) Free
• Review: daily salmeterol increases non-fatal serious adverse events in chronic asthma (30 January, 2009)
• Review: faecal occult blood test screening reduces risk of colorectal cancer mortality (30 January, 2009)
• CD4⁺ count–guided antiretroviral therapy interruption increased opportunistic disease and death more than continuous therapy in HIV

  (30 January, 2009)
• Active management of risk in pregnancy at term did not reduce caesarean delivery rates (30 January, 2009)
• Review: postmenopausal hormone therapy increases risk of stroke and venous thromboembolism but not coronary heart disease events (30 January, 2009)
• Review: an early invasive strategy has similar benefits in men and women with NSTEMI or unstable angina (30 January, 2009)
• A single measure of urinary neutrophil gelatinase–associated lipocalin was accurate for diagnosing acute kidney injury (30 January, 2009)