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Commentaries

• General medicine: PCI does not improve outcomes for patients with stable angina (9 March, 2018)

  Paul D Morris, David R Warriner
• General medicine: Intensive blood pressure-lowering reduces mortality and cardiovascular events in older people (24 February, 2018)

  Emily Atkins
• General medicine: Risk score identifies patients who will benefit from prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy (19 February, 2018)

  Kamil F Faridi, Robert W Yeh
• General medicine: Natriuretic peptide guided therapy for management of patients with heart failure does not show improvement compared with usual medical therapy alone (22 February, 2018)

  Julie McLellan, Clare Bankhead
• General medicine: Antibiotic prescribing does not decrease complications in adult patients with lower respiratory tract infections (9 March, 2018)

  Morten Lindbæk
• Primary care: Hypoxia and signs of increased work of breathing are most strongly associated with radiographic pneumonia in children (19 February, 2018)

  Heather J Zar
• Mental health: Greater cognitive decline relative to normal ageing occurs at least 10 years prior to clinical dementia diagnosis (20 February, 2018)

  Moyra E Mortby, Ruth Peters