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Therapeutics

• The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet lowered systolic blood pressure in stage 1 isolated systolic hypertension (1 March, 2002)
• Combined treatment with indapamide and perindopril but not perindopril alone reduced the risk for recurrent stroke (1 March, 2002)
• Clopidogrel plus aspirin was effective but increased bleeding in acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation (1 March, 2002)
• A nurse-led intervention reduced risk factors, anxiety, and depression in patients waiting for CABG (1 March, 2002)
• Revascularisation led to less angina and fewer adverse cardiac events than did optimal medical care in angina pectoris in the elderly (1 March, 2002)
• Continuous and intermittent sibutramine were equally effective at 44 weeks for reducing weight in obesity (1 March, 2002)
• Levodopa plus carbidopa before physiotherapy increased motor recovery after stroke (1 March, 2002)
• Review: thrombolysis increases short term death and intracranial haemorrhage but decreases long term death or dependence (1 March, 2002)
• Review: studies on the cardiovascular effects of selective COX-2 inhibitors show mixed results (1 March, 2002)
• Review: long term lithium treatment lowers suicide risk in major affective disorder (1 March, 2002)
• Review: problem solving treatment after deliberate self harm improves depression, hopelessness, and personal problems (1 March, 2002)
• Review: behavioural interventions show the most promise for chronic fatigue syndrome (1 March, 2002)
• Review: mucolytic drugs reduce exacerbations, illness days, and antibiotic use in chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1 March, 2002)
• Zinc or vitamin A reduced diarrhoea in young, poor Bangladeshi children (1 March, 2002)
• A rice based diet with green banana or pectin reduced diarrhoea in infants better than a rice alone diet (1 March, 2002)
• Physiotherapy, aerobics, and training devices reduced pain intensity and frequency in chronic low back pain (1 March, 2002)
• Review: antidepressants improve headache in patients with chronic headache (1 March, 2002)