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• • ·Pulmonary thromboembolism in Asians/Pacific Islanders in the United States: analysis of data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey and the United States Bureau of the Census

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    Paul D Stein, Fadi Kayali, Ronald E Olson, Creagh E Milford

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• • ·Health care and medication costs and use among older adults with heart failure

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    Kevin T Stroupe, Evgenia Y Teal, Michael Weiner, Irmina Gradus-Pizlo, D.Craig Brater, Michael D Murray

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• • ·The management of anticoagulants in the periendoscopic period for patients with atrial fibrillation: a decision analysis

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    Lauren B Gerson, George Triadafilopoulos, Brian F Gage

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• • ·Effects of carvedilol on oxidative stress in polymorphonuclear and mononuclear cells in patients with essential hypertension

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    Kenichi Yasunari, Kensaku Maeda, Munehiro Nakamura, Takanori Watanabe, Junichi Yoshikawa, Akira Asada

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• • ·Elevated blood urea nitrogen level as a predictor of mortality in patients admitted for decompensated heart failure

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    Doron Aronson, Murray A Mittleman, Andrew J Burger

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• • ·Health care lobbying in the United States

    Page :474-477

    Steven H Landers, Ashwini R Sehgal

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• • ·Commonly used herbal medicines in the United States: a review

    Page :478-485

    Stephen Bent, Richard Ko

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• • ·Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome in an emergency department

    Page :486-489

    Shirley Beng Suat Ooi, Paul Ananth Tambyah

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• • ·Cases from the Osler medical service at Johns Hopkins University

    Page :490-492

    Nisa M Maruthur, Edward C Hsiao, James Lee, Philip Nivatpumin

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• • ·What protects Asians from venous thromboembolism?

    Page :493-495

    Arthur L. Klatsky, David Baer

    
• • ·Health care lobbying: time to make patients the special interest

    Page :496-497

    Margot Kushel, Andrew B. Bindman

    
• • ·Immunochemical fecal occult blood tests for colorectal cancer screening

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    James E. Allison

    
• • ·The Reply

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    Cynthia Ko, Jason Dominitz, Toan Nguyen

    
• • ·Thrombospondin gene polymorphisms and the risk of angiographic coronary in-stent restenosis

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    Saskia Z.H. Rittersma, S.Matthijs Boekholdt, Karel T. Koch, Reina Geuzebroek, Matthijs Bax, Carl E. Schotborgh, Hetty Eckmann, Ron J.G. Peters, Jan J. Piek, Jan G. Tijssen, Pieter H. Reitsma, Robbert J. de Winter

     
• • ·Factitious granulomatous hepatitis?

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    Amnon Schlegel

    
• • ·Iron overload due to X-linked sideroblastic anemia in an African American man

    Page :501-502

    Timothy S. Collins, Murat O. Arcasoy

     
• • ·The future of health services research in academic medicine

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    Roberto B Vargas, Bruce E Landon, Martin F Shapiro

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