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Therapeutics/Prevention

• Systematic review and meta-analysis: Benefits of blood pressure lowering are seen across levels of baseline blood pressure, comorbidity and drug class (7 July, 2016)

  Mark R Nelson
• Randomised controlled trial: Transfemoral transcatheter aortic-valve replacement should be preferred over surgery in most intermediate-risk patients (8 August, 2016)

  Corrado Tamburino, Piera Capranzano
• Randomised controlled trial: After precessation nicotine replacement therapy, abrupt cessation increases abstinence more than gradual cessation in smokers ready to quit (11 August, 2016)

  Elias M Klemperer, John R Hughes
• Cohort study: Publicly funded postpartum contraception use is associated with a reduction in the rate of subsequent preterm birth (9 August, 2016)

  Michael A Krew
• Randomised controlled trial: Current evidence does not support the widespread use of collaborative care for PTSD, but it is limited by not evaluating context (22 August, 2016)

  Bradley V Watts
• Randomised controlled trial: Prophylactic low-dose hydrocortisone treatment increases the rate of survival without bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely preterm infants (11 August, 2016)

  Anton van Kaam, Wes Onland
• Systematic review with meta analysis: Erythropoietin corrects anaemia and reduces the risk of blood transfusion in people with chronic kidney disease, but has uncertain effects on other patient-level outcomes (12 August, 2016)

  David W Johnson
• Randomised controlled trial: Antibiotics of no benefit to children with eczema and features of cutaneous infection but controversy remains unresolved (18 August, 2016)

  Ting Fan Leung
• Cohort study: Still many unanswered questions about rate control therapy in atrial fibrillation (18 August, 2016)

  Mariëlle Kloosterman, Isabelle C Van Gelder
• Systematic review: Antibiotics administered for acute otitis media have modest benefits and adverse effects (18 August, 2016)

  Jennifer J Shin
• Cost-effectiveness study: Colorectal cancer screening is cost-effective in the elderly who have had less intense prior screening, high baseline risk of colorectal cancer and less comorbidities (23 August, 2016)

  Mark Jenkins
• Systematic review: Acupuncture may be considered to be an effective tool for patients with frequent episodic or chronic tension-type headache (26 August, 2016)

  Yinglu Liu, Shengyuan Yu
• Cost-effectiveness study: Protease inhibitor monotherapy was non-inferior and cost-effective as maintenance therapy compared to triple therapy in viral load suppressed patients with HIV-1 infection (26 August, 2016)

  Diego Ripamonti
• Randomized controlled trial: Diet–heart disease hypothesis is unaffected by results of analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (24 August, 2016)

  C Murray Skeaff, Jim I Mann
• Randomised controlled trial: Metformin reduces weight gain in overweight/obese adolescents with type 1 diabetes (23 August, 2016)

  Arya M Sharma
• Systematic review: Topical NSAIDs significantly reduces pain in adults with acute musculoskeletal injuries (12 August, 2016)

  Gwendolyn Vuurberg, Gino M M J Kerkhoffs