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Therapeutics

• Review: continuing treatment with antidepressants reduces the rate of relapse or recurrence of depressive symptoms regardless of duration of treatment before or after randomisation (3 October, 2003)
• Review: electroconvulsive therapy reduces depressive symptoms (3 October, 2003)
• Review: restricted dietary salt intake can reduce blood pressure but does not reduce death or cardiovascular morbidity (3 October, 2003)
• Rhythm control strategies were not better than rate control strategies for atrial fibrillation (3 October, 2003) Free
• Rate control was not inferior to rhythm control for recurrent persistent atrial fibrillation (3 October, 2003)
• An intensive intervention reduced cardiovascular and microvascular events in type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria (3 October, 2003)
• Combination ACE inhibitor and angiotensin receptor blocker therapy was better than monotherapy in non-diabetic renal disease (3 October, 2003)
• ACE inhibitors reduced cardiovascular events and all cause mortality in elderly people with hypertension (3 October, 2003)
• Review: long acting β₂ agonists are better than short acting β₂ agonists in chronic asthma

  (3 October, 2003)
• Adjunctive treatment with eplerenone reduced morbidity and mortality in acute myocardial infarction (3 October, 2003)
• Review: some non-surgical interventions improve symptoms in carpal tunnel syndrome (3 October, 2003)
• Mitoxantrone slowed progression of disability and reduced relapses in multiple sclerosis (3 October, 2003)
• A collaborative care management programme in a primary care setting was effective for older adults with late life depression (3 October, 2003)
• Buprenorphine improved treatment retention in patients with heroin dependence (3 October, 2003)
• Subcutaneous and intravenous infusions were similarly well accepted, safe, and feasible in older patients with dehydration (3 October, 2003)
• Morphine sulphate analgesia did not affect diagnostic accuracy in undifferentiated abdominal pain (3 October, 2003)
• Review: herbal medicinal products seem to be effective and safe in nonulcer dyspepsia (3 October, 2003)
• A topical cream containing glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate reduced joint pain in osteoarthritis of the knee (3 October, 2003)