Submissions from 2014
Relationship between medicine, spirituality and religion: Three models for integration, Michael Balboni, Christina M. Puchalski, and John Peteet
Saturated and trans fats and dementia: A systematic review, Neal D. Barnard, Anne E. Bunner, and Ulka Agarwal
Dietary and lifestyle guidelines for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, Neal D. Barnard, Ashley I. Bush, Antonia Ceccarelli, James K. Cooper, Celeste A. de Jager, Kirk I. Erickson, Gary Fraser, Shelli Kesler, Susan Levin, Brendan Lucey, Martha Clare Morris, and Rosanna Squitti
Meat consumption as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, Neal D. Barnard, Susan Levin, and Caroline Trapp
Challenges to be overcome using population-based sampling methods to recruit veterans for a study of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, Peter J. Bayley, Jennifer Y. Kong, Drew A. Helmer, Aaron Schneiderman, Lauren A. Roselli, Stephanie M. Rosse, Jordan A. Jackson, Janet Baldwin, Linda Isaac, Michael Nolascp, Marc R. Blackman, Matthew J. Reinhard, John Wesson Ashford, and Julie C. Chapman
Rethinking the ethics of research involving nonhuman animals: Introduction, Tom L. Beauchamp, Hope R. Ferdowsian, and John P. Gluck
Tiotropium in asthma: A systematic review, Elizabeth Befekadu, Claudia Onofrei, and Gene L. Colice
A multicenter survey of why and how tidal peritoneal dialysis (TPD) is being used, Peter G. Blake, James A. Sloand, Susan McMurray, Arsh K. Jain, and Sandee Matthews
Communication skills training for resident physicians: A physician-educator perspective, Benjamin Blatt, Noemi Alice Spinazzi, and Larrie Greenberg
Dropout from care among HIV-infected patients enrolled in care at a tertiary HIV care center in Chennai, India, Erik J. Blutinger, Suniti Solomon, Aylur K. Srikrishnan, Easter Thamburaj, Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Santhanam Anand, Aylur K. Ganesh, and Sunil S. Solomon
Impact of the 2014 Expert Panel Recommendations for Management of High Blood Pressure on Contemporary Cardiovascular Practice: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry, William B. Borden, Thomas M. Maddox, Fengming Tang, John Rumsfeld, William J. Oetgen, J. Brendan Mullen, Sarah A. Spinler, Eric D. Peterson, and Frederick A. Masoudi
Assessing variation in utilization for acute myocardial infarction in New York State, William B. Borden, Allison F. Marier, Thomas H. Dennison, Deborah A. Freund, Kevin Cook, and Alvin I. Mushlin
Chronic pancreatitis in an elderly woman with inflammatory bowel disease: Extraintestinal manifestation or physiologic aging?, Marie L. Borum and Gayatri Patel
Safety and dose-finding study of activated protein c (drotrecogin alfa activated) as an anticoagulant in end-stage renal disease patients treated with hemodialysis, Ermira Brasha-Mitchell, Ashte Collins, Lindita Shehu, Michael G. Seneff, Samir S. Patel, and Lakhmir S. Chawla
Nutrition intervention for migraine: a randomized crossover trial, Anne E. Bunner, Ulka Agarwal, Joseph F. Gonzales, Francesca Valente, and Neal D. Barnard
Spirituality and health, Arndt Bussing, Klaus Baumann, Niels Christian Hvidt, Harold G. Koenig, Christina M. Puchalski, and John Swinton
Clinical PathoScope: Rapid alignment and filtration for accurate pathogen identification in clinical samples using unassembled sequencing data, Allyson L. Byrd, Joseph F. Perez-Rogers, Solaiappan Manimaran, Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Ian Toma, Timothy A. McCaffrey, Marc O. Siegel, Gary Benson, Keith Crandall, and William Evan Johnson
Engaging the next generation of healthcare professionals in genomics: Planning for the future, Shawneequa L. Callier, Ian Toma, Timothy McCaffrey, Arthur F. Harralson, and Travis J. O'Brien
Should AAPL enforce its ethics? Challenges and solutions., Philip J Candilis, Charles C Dike, Donald J Meyer, Wade C Myers, and Robert Weinstock
Public health training in internal medicine residency programs: a national survey, Jillian S. Catalanotti, David K. Popiel, Monique M. Duwell, Jessica Hallerman Price, and Jacqueline Cole Miles
John B. Barlow: the man and his syndrome., Tsung O Cheng
All atrial septal defects should be closed, Tsung O. Cheng
China's epidemic of child obesity: An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of treatment, Tsung O. Cheng
Is It TAVI or TAVR?, Tsung O. Cheng
Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy: Three decades of progress, Tsung O. Cheng
Patent foramen ovale: To close or not to close remains an unsettled issue except in three conditions, Tsung O. Cheng
Smoking in China: Can or should China kick the habit?, Tsung O. Cheng
Echocardiographic diagnosis of sinus of Valsalva aneurysm: A 17-year (1995-2012) experience of 212 surgically treated patients from one single medical center in China, Tsung O. Cheng, Ya-Li Yang, Ming-Xing Xie, Xin-Fang Wang, Nian-Guo Dong, Wei Su, Qing Lu, Lin He, Xiao-Fang Lu, Jing Wang, Ling Li, and Li Yuan
Transitioning youth with rheumatic conditions: Perspectives of pediatric rheumatology providers in the United States and Canada, Peter Chira, Tova Ronis, Stacy Ardoin, and Patience H.P. White
Estimation of cardiac output and pulmonary vascular resistance by contrast echocardiography transit time measurement: a prospective pilot study, Brian G. Choi, Reza Sanai, Benjamin Yang, Heather A. Young, Ramesh Mazhari, Jonathan Reiner, and Jannet Lewis
Remembering Johnnie., Katherine C. Chretien
The Ah(a) moment, Katherine C. Chretien
Climbing social media in medicine's hierarchy of needs, Katherine C. Chretien and Terry Kind
The occurrence of increased intraperitoneal volume events in automated peritoneal dialysis in the US: role of programming, patient/user actions and ultrafiltration, Borut Cižman, Steve Lindo, Brian Bilionis, Ira Davis, Aaron Brown, Jennifer Miller, Gerald Phillips, Alex Kriukov, and James A. Sloand
Psychosocial issues, Scott D. Cohen, Daniel Cukor, and Paul L. Kimmel
Nutrition and the brain: What advice should we give?, James K. Cooper
Phase I trial of everolimus, gemcitabine and cisplatin in patients with solid tumors, Brian A. Costello, Mitesh J. Borad, Yingwei Qi, George P. Kim, Donald W. Northfelt, Charles Erlichman, and Steven R. Alberts
Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease, J. Crosby, G. M. Peloso, P. L. Auer, D. R. Crosslin, N. O. Stitziel, Lisa W. Martin, and +65 additional authors
Herpes simplex virus encephalitis during treatment with etanercept, Robbert H.J. Crusio, Stephanie V. Singson, Faysal Haroun, Hetal H. Mehta, and David M. Parenti
Complete LVOT obstruction following aortic valve replacement after HeartMate II implantation., Robert Patrick Davis, Adam Kilian, Tomasz A Timek, Stephen D Cohle, and Robert L Hooker
A look at statin cost-effectiveness in view of the 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol management guidelines, Roderick C. Deaño, Ankur Pandya, Erica C. Jones, and William B. Borden
Effects of weight loss, weight cycling, and weight loss maintenance on diabetes incidence and change in cardiometabolic traits in the diabetes prevention program, Linda M. Delahanty, Qing Pan, Kathleen A. Jablonski, Vanita R. Aroda, Karol E. Watson, George A. Bray, Steven E. Kahn, Jose C. Florez, Leigh Perreault, and Paul W. Franks
Focus article report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain, Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, and +15 additional authors
Report of the National Institutes of Health task force on research standards for chronic low back pain, Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, and +15 additional authors
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: genotype-positive, phenotype-"almost" negative. Diagnostic role of exercise in provocation of left ventricular outflow tract gradient., Pawel Petkow Dimitrow and Tsung O. Cheng
Need for a standardized protocol for stress echocardiography in provoking subaortic and valvular gradient in various cardiac conditions, Pawel Petkow Dimitrow, Carlos Cotrim, and Tsung O. Cheng
Setting the standard: EHR quality reporting rises in prominence due to meaningful use, Robert H. Dolin, Kate Goodrich, Crystal Kallem, Liora Altschuler, and Patrice Holtz
Mitochondrial cytopathies and cardiovascular disease., Elizabeth A Dominic, Ali Ramezani, Stefan D Anker, Mukesh Verma, Nehal Mehta, and Madhumathi Rao
Risk of heart failure among postmenopausal women: A secondary analysis of the randomized trial of vitamin D plus calcium of the Women's Health Initiative, Macarius M. Donneyong, Carlton A. Hornung, Kira C. Taylor, Richard N. Baumgartner, John A. Myers, Charles B. Eaton, Eiran Z. Gorodeski, Liviu Klein, Lisa W. Martin, James M. Shikany, Yiqing Song, Wenjun Li, and Joann E. Manson
Emerging therapeutic options for eosinophilic esophagitis, Timothy Dougherty, Sindu Stephen, Marie L. Borum, and David B. Doman
Carotid baroreceptor stimulation: A promising approach for the management of resistant hypertension and heart failure, Michael N. Doumas, Charles O. Faselis, Peter F. Kokkinos, Panagiota Anyfanti, Costas Tsioufis, and Vasilios Papademetriou
Renal nerve ablation for resistant hypertension: The dust has not yet settled, Michael N. Doumas, Nikos Lazaridis, and Vasilios Papademetriou
To stent or not to stent? This is the renal artery stenosis question, Michael N. Doumas, Konstantinos Tziomalos, and Vasilios Athyros
Non-interventional management of resistant hypertension, Michael Doumas, Costas Tsioufis, Charles O. Faselis, Antonio Lazaridis, Haris Grassos, and Vasilios Papademetriou
Accountable care organizations and the allergist: Challenges and opportunities, Daniel Ein and Michael B. Foggs
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Causes and effects, Daniel Ein and Akilah Jefferson
Treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia, Ebab Elbahesh, Nihar Patel, and Imad A. Tabbara
Large multiethnic Candidate Gene Study for C-reactive protein levels: Identification of a novel association at CD36 in African Americans, Jaclyn Ellis, Ethan M. Lange, Jin Li, Josee Dupuis, Jens Baumert, Jeremy D. Walston, Brendan J. Keating, Peter Durda, Ervin R. Fox, Cameron D. Palmer, Yan A. Meng, Taylor Young, Deborah N. Farlow, Renate B. Schnabel, Carola S. Marzi, Emma Larkin, Lisa W. Martin, Joshua C. Bis, Paul Auer, Vasan S. Ramachandran, Stacey B. Gabriel, Monte S. Willis, James S. Pankow, George J. Papanicolaou, Jerome I. Rotter, Christie M. Ballantyne, Myron D. Gross, Guillaume Lettre, James G. Wilson, Ulrike Peters, Wolfgang Koenig, and Russell P. Tracy
Long-term survival after CABG in diabetics with aggressive risk factor management, Kendal Endicott, Conor Hynes, Dominic A. Emerson, Peter F. Kokkinos, Michael D. Greenberg, and Gregory D. Trachiotis
Dopamine D1-like receptors regulate the α1A-adrenergic receptor in human renal proximal tubule cells and D1-like dopamine receptor knockout mice, Riley Charles Ennis, Laureano D. Asico, Ines Armando, Jian Yang, Jun B. Feranil, Julie A. Jurgens, Crisanto S. Escano, Peiying Yu, Xiaoyan Wang, David R. Sibley, Pedro A. Jose, and Van Anthony M. Villar
Dopamine D1-like receptors regulate the α1A-adrenergic receptor in human renal proximal tubule cells and D1-like dopamine receptor knockout mice, Riley Charles Ennis, Laureano D. Asico, Ines Armando, Jian Yang, Jun B. Feranil, Julie A. Jurgens, Crisanto S. Escano, Peiying Yu, Xiaoyan Wang, David R. Sibley, Pedro A. Jose, and Van Anthony M. Villar
Exercise capacity and all-cause mortality in male veterans with hypertension aged ≥70 years, Charles O. Faselis, Michael N. Doumas, Andreas Pittaras, Puneet Narayan, Jonathan Myers, Apostolos Tsimploulis, and Peter F. Kokkinos
Harms and deprivation of benefits for nonhuman primates in research, Hope R. Ferdowsian and Agustin Fuentes
Avoidable iatrogenic hypoglycemia in patients on peritoneal dialysis: the risks of nonspecific glucose monitoring devices and drug-device interaction, Catherine A. Firanek, Dalia T. Jacob, and James A. Sloand
Prospective associations of coronary heart disease loci in African Americans using the MetaboChip: The PAGE study, Nora Franceschini, Yijuan Hu, Alex P. Reiner, Steven Buyske, Mike Nalls, Lisa W. Martin, and +25 additional authors
Drug-induced post-repolarization refractoriness as an antiarrhythmic principle and its underlying mechanism, Michael R. Franz, Richard A. Gray, Pamela Karasik, Hans J. Moore, and Steven N. Singh
Thiamine pyrophosphokinase deficiency causes a Leigh disease like phenotype in a sibling pair: Identification through whole exome sequencing and management strategies, Jamie L. Fraser, Adeline Vanderver, Sandra Yang, Taeun Chang, Laura Cramp, Gilbert Vezina, Uta Lichter-Konecki, Kristina Cusmano-Ozog, Patroula Smpokou, Kimberly A. Chapman, and Dina Zand
Impaired dopamine D1 receptor-mediated vasorelaxation of mesenteric arteries in obese Zucker rats, Jinjuan Fu, Yu Han, Hongyong Wang, Zhen Wang, Yukai Liu, Xingjian Chen, Yue Cai, Weiwei Guan, Di Yang, Laureano D. Asico, Lin Zhou, Pedro A. Jose, and Chunyu Zeng
Commentary, Shruti M. Gandhi and Eric Nylen
Direct evidence for calcineurin binding to the exon-7 loop of the sodium-bicarbonate transporter NBCn1, Harindarpal S. Gill, Eric D. Roush, Lauren Dutcher, and Samir Patel
Development and validation of an algorithm to identify patients newly diagnosed with HIV infection from electronic health records, Matthew B. Goetz, Tuyen Hoang, Virginia Kan, David Rimland, and Maria Rodriguez-Barradas
A core physical exam for medical students: Results of a national survey, Deepthiman Gowda, Benjamin Blatt, Mary Johanna Fink, Lynn Y. Kosowicz, Aileen Baecker, and Ronald C. Silvestri
Keeping the human touch in medical practice [3], Deepthiman Gowda, Benjamin Blatt, Lynn Kosowicz, and Ronald Silvestri
In reply to Yudkowsky, Deepthiman Gowda, Benjamin Blatt, Lynn Y. Kosowicz, and Ronald C. Silvestri
Addressing concerns about a "core + clusters" physical exam, Deepthiman Gowda, Benjamin Blatt, Lynn Y. Kosowicz, and Ronald C. Silvestri
Cardiometabolic impact of non-statin lipid lowering therapies, Parag Goyal, Leon I. Igel, Keith LaScalea, and William B. Borden
Intra-scar perfusion heterogeneity by cardiac magnetic resonance in a porcine model of non-reperfused myocardial infarction, Gabriela Guzman-Martinez, Leticia Fernandez-Friera, Sergio Moral, Scott Shapiro, David Bates, Roger Hajjar, Mario J. Garcia, Valentin Fuster, and Javier Sanz
Programmatic assessment of level 1 milestones in incoming interns, Samantha R. Hauff, Laura R. Hopson, Eve Losman, Marcia A. Perry, Monica L. Lypson, Jonathan Fischer, and Sally A. Santen
Re-demonstration without remediation--a missed opportunity? A national survey of internal medicine clerkship directors, Mary R. Hawthorne, Katherine C. Chretien, Dario Torre, and Shobhina G. Chheda
Ethnicity-specific pharmacogenetics: The case of warfarin in African Americans, W. Hernandez, E. R. Gamazon, K. Aquino-Michaels, S. Patel, T. J. O'Brien, A. F. Harralson, R. A. Kittles, A. Barbour, M. Tuck, S. D. McIntosh, J. N. Douglas, D. Nicolae, L. H. Cavallari, and M. A. Perera
Brucella arteritis: Clinical manifestations, treatment and prognosis, Jesica A. Herrick, Robert J. Lederman, Brigit Sullivan, John H. Powers, and Tara N. Palmore
Pediatric laboratory medicine in the developing world., Jocelyn M. Hicks
Use of Medicare data to identify coronary heart disease outcomes in the Women's Health Initiative, Mark A. Hlatky, Roberta M. Ray, Dale R. Burwen, Karen L. Margolis, Karen C. Johnson, Lisa W. Martin, and +16 additional authors
Early illness features associated with mortality in the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, Adam M. Huber, Gulnara Mamyrova, Peter A. Lachenbruch, Julia A. Lee, James D. Katz, Ira N. Targoff, Frederck W. Miller, and Lisa G. Rider
Problems of testosterone deficiency and erectile dysfunction in men (literature review), Kh S. Ibishev, I. A. Khripun, I. I. Belousov, A. A. Chernyĭ, E. O. Dzantieva, and M. I. Kogan
Competency in electrocardiogram interpretation among graduating medical students, Robert S. Jablonover, Erin Lundberg, Yilong Zhang, and Alex S. Stagnaro-Green
Spirituality and Health Care in Iran: Time to Reconsider, Najmeh Jafari, Amir Loghmani, and Christina M. Puchalski
Is There a Link Between Liraglutide and Pancreatitis? A Post Hoc Review of Pooled and Patient-Level Data From Completed Liraglutide Type 2 Diabetes Clinical Trials, Troels M. Jensen, Kishore Saha, and William M. Steinberg
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the dopamine d2 receptor increase inflammation and fibrosis in human renal proximal tubule cells, Xiaoliang Jiang, Prasad Konkalmatt, Yu Yang, John Gildea, John E. Jones, Santiago Cuevas, Robin A. Felder, Pedro A. Jose, and Ines Armando
Calcium/vitamin D supplementation, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations, and cholesterol profiles in the Women's Health Initiative calcium/vitamin D randomized trial, Xuezhi Jiang, Sharon Vila-Wright, Aaron K. Aragaki, Matthew Nudy, David M. O'Sullivan, Rebecca Jackson, Erin Leblanc, Jennifer G. Robinson, James M. Shikany, Catherine R. Womack, Lisa W. Martin, Marian L. Neuhouser, Mara Z. Vitolins, Yiqing Song, Stephen Kritchevsky, and Joann E. Manson
Universal ECG changes in pediatric patients undergoing procainamide challenges, Christopher P. Jordan, Charles I. Berul, Jeffrey P. Moak, and Elizabeth A. Greene
Risk assessment for healthcare workers after a sentinel case of rabies and review of the literature, Virginia L. Kan, Patrick Joyce, Debra A. Benator, Kathleen Agnes, Janet Gill, Monica Irmler, Arlene Clark, George Giannakos, Audrey Gabourel, and Fred M. Gordin
A Rare Complication of Cytomegalovirus Infection Meningoventriculoencephalitis Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome, A D. Kerkhoff, J A. Reyes, A D. Roberts, and G L. Simon
Resolution of anaemia in a cohort of HIV-infected patients with a high prevalence and incidence of tuberculosis receiving antiretroviral therapy in South Africa, Andrew D. Kerkhoff, Robin Wood, Frank G. Cobelens, Ankur Gupta-Wright, Linda-Gail Bekker, and Stephen D. Lawn
Prognostic value of a quantitative analysis of lipoarabinomannan in urine from patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis, Andrew D. Kerkhoff, Robin Wood, Monica Vogt, and Stephen D. Lawn
Predictive value of anemia for tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa: An indication for routine microbiological investigation using new rapid assays, Andrew D. Kerkhoff, Robin Y. Wood, Monica Vogt, and Stephen D. Lawn
Commentary, Shikha Khosla
Twelve tips for using social media as a medical educator, Terry Kind, Pradip D. Patel, Désirée Lie, and Katherine C. Chretien
Herpes simplex virus blepharitis in a patient with Crohn's colitis, Adam Kittai, Aamir Ali, and Marie L. Borum