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Commentaries

Primary care

• Longer screening intervals are recommended following a negative HPV test in primary cervical screening (22 July, 2017)

  Julian Peto, Clare Gilham
• Haem iron and nitrate/nitrite account for much of the mortality increase associated with red meat consumption (16 August, 2017)

  Sabine Rohrmann, Jakob Linseisen
• Value of screening for and treating pre-diabetes is reduced by low test accuracy and indirect evidence of impact on patient important outcomes (22 July, 2017)

  Neri A Alvarez-Villalobos, Rene Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Victor M Montori

General medicine

• Caffeine does not increase the arrhythmic burden in patients with heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction (17 August, 2017)

  Daniel Caldeira
• In stable COPD, long-acting muscarinic antagonist plus long-acting beta-agonists resulted in less exacerbations, pneumonia and larger improvement in FEV ₁ than long-acting beta-agonists plus inhaled corticosteroids

  (11 August, 2017)

  Mario Cazzola, Paola Rogliani
• CETP inhibition improves the lipid profile but has no effect on clinical cardiovascular outcomes in high-risk patients (26 August, 2017)

  Robert S Rosenson
• Early renin–angiotensin system inhibition induced renal deterioration may be a predictor for long-term cardiorenal outcomes (5 August, 2017)

  Redi Llubani, Michael Böhm

Maternal and child health

• Antibiotic utilisation in very low birth weight infants without sepsis or necrotising enterocolitis is associated with multiple adverse outcomes (12 July, 2017)

  Jessica L Roberts, Ravi M Patel
• Serial transvaginal cervical length measurements and quantitative vaginal fetal fibronectin concentrations did not predict spontaneous preterm birth in low-risk nulliparous women (30 August, 2017)

  Donald Dudley
• Antenatal corticosteroid administration between 24 hours and 7 days before extremely preterm delivery is associated with the lowest rate of mortality (17 July, 2017)

  Colm P Travers, Waldemar A Carlo

Emergency care

• Routine invasive strategies compared with conservative strategies do not lower the all-cause mortality in patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and unstable angina (3 August, 2017)

  Udho Thadani

Surgery

• Over half of the patients who undergo adjustable gastric banding may require revision bariatric surgery (29 July, 2017)

  Christopher de Gara, Vanessa Falk
• In localised prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy was associated with more sexual dysfunction and urinary incontinence than radiation or active surveillance (16 August, 2017)

  Zachary L Smith, Scott E Eggener
• Meniscal resection may not benefit patients with traumatic meniscal tears (1 August, 2017)

  Raine Sihvonen

Mental health

• Parent-delivered CBT may reduce intervention cost, but questions arise about effectiveness (17 August, 2017)

  Gabriela M Hungerford, Lauren C Santucci, John R Weisz