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Therapeutics

• Review: exercise training reduces HbA_1c concentrations but not body mass in type 2 diabetes mellitus

  (1 May, 2002) Free
• Overall satisfaction increased more with inhaled insulin than with subcutaneous insulin in type 1 diabetes (1 May, 2002)
• Review: inactivated vaccines provide the greatest protection against influenza in healthy people (1 May, 2002)
• Review: adding antileucotrienes to inhaled corticosteroids reduces exacerbations in symptomatic chronic asthma (1 May, 2002)
• Montelukast moderately decreased asthma symptoms in children with persistent asthma (1 May, 2002)
• Review: pressurised metered dose inhalers are as effective as other hand held inhalers for corticosteroid use in asthma (1 May, 2002)
• Review: pressurised metered dose inhalers are as effective as other hand held inhalers for β₂ agonist bronchodilator use in asthma

  (1 May, 2002)
• Irbesartan was renoprotective in patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and microalbuminuria (1 May, 2002)
• Irbesartan reduced progression of nephropathy caused by type 2 diabetes independent of the effect on blood pressure (1 May, 2002)
• Losartan was renoprotective in diabetic nephropathy independent of its effect on blood pressure (1 May, 2002)
• A specialist nurse intervention reduced readmissions in patients admitted to hospital with chronic heart failure (1 May, 2002)
• Benzodiazepines were as safe as and more effective than placebo for out-of-hospital status epilepticus (1 May, 2002)
• Lansoprazole provided more effective and faster relief for heartburn than omeprazole in erosive oesophagitis (1 May, 2002)
• Review: antidepressants increase remission and clinical improvement in bulimia nervosa (1 May, 2002)
• Review: psychological treatment is as effective as antidepressants for bulimia nervosa, but a combination is best (1 May, 2002)
• Review: primary care counselling improves psychological symptoms in patients with psychological and psychosocial problems (1 May, 2002)
• Review: haloperidol does not reduce agitation in dementia (1 May, 2002)
• Oestrogen did not prevent death or non-fatal stroke in postmenopausal women with ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (1 May, 2002)
• Initial bromocriptine did not change mortality in early, mild Parkinson's disease (1 May, 2002)
• Review: evidence on surgical interventions for distal radial fractures is inconclusive (1 May, 2002)