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Submissions from 2010

Chinese patients require lower dosage of warfarin, TO Cheng

Erratum to "Effect of sleep deprivation on cardiovascular health" [Int. J. Cardiol. 134 (2009) 293-294] (DOI:10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.046), TO Cheng

Fund for non-fast food, TO Cheng

Is China finally going to ban cigarette smoking?, TO Cheng

Mechanisms of variability of left ventricular outflow tract gradient in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, TO Cheng

Morbid obesity, cardiac disease, and bariatric surgery, TO Cheng

Mozart's rheumatic heart disease and probable infective endocarditis, TO Cheng

Postoperative echocardiographic followup for patients with mitral valve prolapse is essential after mitral valve repair, TO Cheng

Prevention of postoperative atrial fibrillation and/or flutter is another important reason for percutaneous instead of surgical closure of atrial septal defect in adults, TO Cheng

Reply to Dominguez-Rodriguez and Abreu-Gonzalez: "Suprachiasmatic nucleus: Still a forgotten circadian pacemaker in acute myocardial infarction", TO Cheng

Upright versus supine position in examining a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, TO Cheng

What's in a name? Another unexplained acronym!, TO Cheng

When studies with positive-sounding acronyms turned out to be negative trials, TO Cheng

William Dock, Willie Sutton and Sutton's Law, TO Cheng

Recent advances in the echocardiographic diagnosis of metral valve prolapse, T. O. Cheng, X.F. Wang, J. Zhang, and M.X. Xie

Cystatin C, Albuminuria, and 5-Year All-Cause Mortality in HIV-Infected Persons, A Choi, R Scherzer, P Bacchetti, PC Tien, and MS Saag

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It's your own risk: Medical students' perspectives on online professionalism, Katherine C. Chretien, Ellen F. Goldman, Louis Beckman, and Terry Kind

A qualitative study of the meaning of physical examination teaching for patients, KC Chretien, EF Goldman, KE Craven, and CJ Faselis

In reply: 'Medical students and unprofessional online content.', KC Chretien, SR Greysen, and T Kind

Letter to the Editor, JT Cohen and GM Gray

Cytokine patterns and survival in haemodialysis patients, S. D. Cohen, T. M. Phillips, P. Khetpal, and P. L. Kimmel

Erratum: Erectile dysfunction drug receipt, risky sexual behavior and sexually transmitted diseases in HIV (Journal of General Internal Medicine DOI: 10.1007/s11606-009-1164-9), RL Cook, KA McGinnis, JH Samet, DA Fiellin, and MC Rodriguez-Barradas

Erectile Dysfunction Drug Receipt, Risky Sexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Men, R. L. Cook, K. A. McGinnis, J. H. Samet, D. A. Fiellin, and M. C. Rodriquez-Barradas

Jackson Pratt drain fluid-to-serum bilirubin concentration ratio for the diagnosis of bile leaks, P Darwin, E Goldberg, and L Uradomo

National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Preventing Alzheimer Disease and Cognitive Decline, ML Daviglus, CC Bell, W Berrettini, PE Bowen, and ES Connolly

Cestode and trematode infections, David J. Diemert

Association of physical activity level and stroke outcomes in men and women: A meta-analysis, L Diep, J Kwagyan, J Kurantsin-Mills, R Weir, and A Jayam-Trouth

Standing position alone or in combination with exercise as a stress test to provoke left ventricular outflow tract gradient in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other conditions, PP Dimitrow and TO Cheng

Renal sympathetic denervation: The jury is still out, M Doumas and S Douma

Renal Sympathetic Denervation and Systemic Hypertension, M Doumas, C Faselis, and V Papademetriou

Journal watch from ACE (Alliance for Clinical Education): Annual review of medical education articles in internal medicine journals, 2008-2009, LN Dyrbye, AR Hoellein, EA Baker, AJ Mechaber, and K O'Brien

Identifying patients at high risk of a cardiovascular event in the near future: Current status and future directions: Report of a national hear, lung, and blood institute working group, K. A. Eagle, G. S. Ginsburg, K. Musunuru, W. C. Aird, and R. S. Balaban

Plasticizer, Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), exposure in neonatal ECMO vs. near-miss ECMO patients, M Eig, K Rais-Bahrami, SJ Soldin, R McCarter, and DR Mendu

Simplified maintenance therapy with abacavir/lamivudine and atazanavir after discontinuation of ritonavir, R Elion, D Berger, G Richmond, M Sension, and E Dejesus

Evaluation of paradoxical TB-associated IRIS with the use of standardized case definitions for resource-limited settings, I Eshun-Wilson, F Havers, JB Nachega, HW Prozesky, and JJ Taljaard

What the guidelines have missed: A general discussion of the faculty: Highlights of the asthma summit 2009: Beyond the guidelines, JR Farrar and MA Kaliner

A multicomponent intervention reduces body weight and cardiovascular risk at a GEICO corporate site., HR Ferdowsian, ND Barnard, VJ Hoover, HI Katcher, and SM Levin

Does diet really affect acne?, HR Ferdowsian and S. Levin

Endobronchial ultrasonography vs conventional transbronchial needle aspiration in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis, G Ferrer and R Khosla

Immunotherapy throughout the decades: From Noon to now, I Finegold, RJ Dockhorn, D Ein, WK Dolen, and J Oppenheimer

Sociodemographic factors contribute to the depressive affect among African Americans with chronic kidney disease, M. J. Fischer, P. L. Kimmel, T. Greene, J. J. Gassman, and X. L. Wang

Hepatitis C and the Risk of Kidney Disease and Mortality in Veterans With HIV, M. J. Fischer, C. M. Wyatt, K. Gordon, C. L. Gibert, and S. T. Brown

Re: The light look at a heavy problem cartoon series, A Frank and S Kahan

Health professionals for a new century: Ttransforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world, J Frenk, L Chen, ZA Bhutta, J Cohen, and N Crisp

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BP1 homeoprotein enhances metastatic potential in ER-negative breast cancer, Yebo Fu, Yi Lian, Kyung Soon Kim, Lei Zhang, A. Katharine Hindle, Fred Brody, Robert S. Siegel, Timothy A. Mccaffrey, and Sidney W. Fu

Health education through analogies: Preparation of a community for clinical trials of a vaccine against hookworm in an endemic Area of Brazil, Maria Flavia Gazzinelli, Lucas Lobato, Leonardo Matoso, Renato Avila, Rita de Cassia Marques, Ami Shah Brown, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Jeffrey M. Bethony, and David J. Diemert

HIV replication capacity is an independent predictor of disease progression in persons with untreated chronic HIV infection, M. B. Goetz, R. Leduc, N. Wyman, J. R. Kostman, and A. M. Labriola

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Enhancing prostate cancer care through the multidisciplinary clinic approach: A 15-year experience, Leonard G. Gomella, Jianqing Lin, Jean Hoffman-Censits, Patricia Dugan, Fran Guiles, Costas D. Lallas, Jaspreet Singh, Peter McCue, Timothy Showalter, Richard K. Valicenti, Adam Dicker, and Edouard J. Trabulsi

Perspective: Successfully negotiating the clerkship years of medical school: A guide for medical students, implications for residents and faculty, L. Greenberg and B. Blatt

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Online professionalism and the mirror of social media, S. Ryan Greysen, Terry Kind, and Katherine C. Chretien

Predicting risk of airflow obstruction in primary care: Validation of the lung function questionnaire (LFQ), NA Hanania, DM Mannino, BP Yawn, DW Mapel, and FJ Martinez

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells stimulate cardiac stem cell proliferation and differentiation, KE Hatzistergos, H Quevedo, BN Oskouei, Q Hu, and GS Feigenbaum

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Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells stimulate cardiac stem cell proliferation and differentiation, Konstantinos E. Hatzistergos, Henry Quevedo, Behzad N. Oskouei, Qinghua Hu, Gary S. Feigenbaum, Irene S. Margitich, Ramesh Mazhari, Andrew J. Boyle, Juan P. Zambrano, Jose E. Rodriguez, Raul Dulce, Pradip M. Pattany, David Valdes, Concepcion Revilla, Alan W. Heldman, Ian McNiece, and Joshua M. Hare

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Identification of cardiovascular genes in omentum from morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes, A. K. Hindle, C. Edwards, T. McCaffrey, S. Fu, and F. Brody

Identification of cardiovascular genes in omentum from morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes, AK Hindle, C Edwards, T McCaffrey, S Fu, and F Brody

Reactivation of adiponectin expression in obese patients after bariatric surgery, AK Hindle, C Edwards, T McCaffrey, SW Fu, and F Brody

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Adiponectin but not leptin is involved in early hepatic disease in morbidly obese patients, Anna Katharine Hindle, Claire Edwards, Alisha Mendonsa, Marcos Rojkind, Tim McCaffrey, Sidney Fu, and Fred Brody

Time to depression treatment in primary care among HIV-infected and uninfected veterans, D Hooshyar, J Goulet, L Chwastiak, S Crystal, and C Gibert

Developing vaccines to combat hookworm infection and intestinal schistosomiasis, Peter J. Hotez, Jeffrey M. Bethony, David J. Diemert, Mark Pearson, and Alex Loukas

Evaluation of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guideline for Women RID C-5899-2009, J Hsia, RJ Rodabough, JE Manson, S Liu, and MS Freiberg

Arteriovenous fistulas among incident hemodialysis patients in department of defense and veterans affairs facilities, FP Hurst, KC Abbott, D Raj, M Krishnan, and CE Palant

Incidence, predictors, costs, and outcome of renal cell carcinoma after kidney transplantation: USRDS experience, FP Hurst, RM Jindal, LJ Graham, EM Falta, and EA Elster

Transplantation of A2 kidneys into B and O recipients leads to reduction in waiting time: USRDS Experience, FP Hurst, I Sajjad, EA Elster, EM Falta, and P Patel

Low attenuation of the thyroid on computed tomography as a marker of thyroiditis in a woman with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, MS Irwig, CJ O'Hara, and SO Tabbara

Potency testing for the experimental Na-GST-1 hookworm vaccine, Amar R. Jariwala, Luciana M. Oliveira, David J. Diemert, Brian Keegan, Jordan L. Plieskatt, Maria V. Periago, Maria E. Bottazzi, Peter J. Hotez, and Jeffrey M. Bethony

Adjunctive inferior vena cava filter placement for acute pulmonary embolism, VM Jha, J Lee-Llacer, J Williams, H Ubaissi, and G Gutierrez

Towards a combined prognostic index for survival in HIV infection: The rolde of 'non-HIV' biomarkers, A. C. Justice, K. A. McGinnis, M. Skanderson, C. C. Chang, and C. L. Gibert

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Downregulation of homologous recombination DNA repair genes by HDAC inhibition in prostate cancer is mediated through the E2F1 transcription factor, Sushant K. Kachhap, Nadine Rosmus, Spencer J. Collis, Madeleine S.Q. Kortenhorst, Michel D. Wissing, Mohammad Hedayati, Shabana Shabbeer, Janet Mendonca, Justin Deangelis, Luigi Marchionni, Jianqing Lin, Naseruddin Höti, Johan W.R. Nortier, Theodore L. Deweese, Hans Hammers, and Michael A. Carducci

Finding health statistics, C Kahn

Highlights of the asthma summit 2009: Beyond the guidelines, MA Kaliner and JR Farrar

Summary and recommendations: Highlights of the asthma summit 2009: Beyond the guidelines, MA Kaliner and JR Farrar

Safety and Efficacy of Romiplostim in Patients With Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Thrombocytopenia, H. Kantarjian, P. Fenaux, M. A. Sekeres, P. S. Becker, and A. Boruchov

HIV testing at a VA medical center in a high prevalence area after VHA policy change: Things are looking up, VL Kan

The rational choice model in family decision making at the end of life, A Karasz, G Sacajiu, M Kogan, and L Watkins

A worksite vegan nutrition program is well-accepted and improves health-related quality of life and work productivity, HI Katcher, HR Ferdowsian, VJ Hoover, JL Cohen, and ND Barnard

Getting to the heart of the matter: Osteoarthritis takes its place as part of the metabolic syndrome, JD Katz, S Agrawal, and M Velasquez

Gender Bias in Diagnosing Fibromyalgia, J. D. Katz, G. Mamyrova, O. Guzhva, and L. Furmark

Random Forests Classification Analysis for the Assessment of Diagnostic Skill, J.D. Katz, G. Mamyrova, O. Guzhva, and L. Furmark

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Assessing targeted screening and low rates of HIV testing, Leigh A. Kennedy, Fred M. Gordin, and Virginia L. Kan

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Bedside Lung Ultrasound in Emergency (BLUE) protocol: A suggestion to modify, Rahul Khosla

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Social media policies at US medical schools., Terry Kind, Gillian Genrich, Avneet Sodhi, and Katherine C. Chretien

Asymptomatic factor VII deficiency: gene analysis and structure-function relationships, D. Kirkel, T. W. Lin, S. W. Fu, J. S. Dlott, and M. A. Sahud

BP1, an isoform of DLX4 homeoprotein, negatively regulates BRCA1 in sporadic breast cancer, BJ Kluk, Y Fu, TA Formolo, L Zhang, and AK Hindle

[Classification of urethroplasty complications in hypospadias]., M. I. Kogan, V. V. Mitusov, V. A. Shangichev, and V. V. Sizonov

[Efficacy of magnetolaser therapy of patients with an inflammatory form of chronic abacterial prostatitis]., M. I. Kogan, A. V. Shangichev, and I. I. Belousov

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Exercise capacity and mortality in older men: A 20-year follow-up study, Peter Kokkinos, Jonathan Myers, Charles Faselis, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Michael Doumas, Andreas Pittaras, Athanasios Manolis, John Peter Kokkinos, Pamela Karasik, Michael Greenberg, Vasilios Papademetriou, and Ross Fletcher

Plasmodium falciparum clearance with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Mali, AK Kone, I Sagara, MA Thera, A Dicko, and A Guindo

Immunity in human schistosomiasis: Hope for a vaccine, B. Kouriba, B. Traore, D. Diemert, M. A. Thera, A. Dolo, A. Tounkara, and O. Doumbo

Illicit drug use and risk for USA300 methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections with bacteremia, KM Kreisel, JK Johnson, OC Stine, MD Shardell, and EN Perencevich

Assessment of the 48-Hour Rule for Identifying Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection Complicated by Bacteremia, K. Kreisel, M. C. Roghmann, M. Shardell, O. C. Stine, and E. Perencevich

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Changes in lipids and lipoprotein particle concentrations after interruption of antiretroviral therapy, Fiona C. Lampe, Daniel A. Duprez, Lewis H. Kuller, Russell Tracy, James Otvos, Erik Stroes, David A. Cooper, Jennifer Hoy, Nick I. Paton, Nina Friis-Møller, Jacquie Neuhaus, Angelike P. Liappis, and Andrew N. Phillips

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Long-term mortality outcomes according to the frequency of right ventricular pacing in veterans, Brent C. Lampert, Hans J. Moore, Richard L. Amdur, Pamela E. Karasik, Brian M. Lewis, Steven N. Singh, and Ross D. Fletcher

Conclusion, JM Lasala, R Mehran, JW Moses, JJ Popma, and JS Reiner

Development of the EXAcerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease tool (EXACT): A patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure, NK Leidy, TK Wilcox, PW Jones, L Murray, and R Winnette

An ethnic-specific polymorphism in the catalytic subunit of glutamate-cysteine ligase impairs the production of glutathione intermediates in vitro, TM Le, AS Willis, FE Barr, GR Cunningham, and JA Canter

A worksite programme significantly alters nutrient intakes, SM Levin, HR Ferdowsian, VJ Hoover, AA Green, and ND Barnard

Hydrothorax: Pleural effusion associated with peritoneal dialysis, S. Q. Lew

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Gastrointestinal complications of acute kidney injury, Susie Q. Lew, Marie L. Borum, and Todd S. Ing

The diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis practice parameter: 2010 Update, P Lieberman, RA Nicklas, J Oppenheimer, SF Kemp, and DM Lang

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Make quality cancer survivorship care possible in the era of workforce shortage, Jianqing Lin and Ross C. Donehower