Articles of Interest

 Where possible, links are to the specific issue of the journal in which the article(s) appears.
2004: Feb
2003: Nov Oct Sept Aug July June May April March Feb
  Prior to Feb 2003

March 2003

  • New England Journal of Medicine, March 27/03
    • Atrial Fibrillation - rate versus rhythm control
    • Silent Brain Infarcts and Risk of Dementia and Cognitive Decline
    • Editorial - Silent Strokes and Dementia
        
  • CMAJ, March 18th/2003
    • NZ Researchers report first case of computer-related "e-thrombosis"
    • FDS moves to highlight warnings about HRT
        
  • BMJ March 8/03
    • Disclosure of financial competing interests in randomised controlled trials cross sectional review
        
  • CMAJ, March 4, 2003
    • The striking effect of the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) on ramipril prescribing in Ontario
    • Rhythm versus rate control for atrial fibrillation management what recent randomized clinical trials allow us to affirm
    • Depression and prognosis following hospital admission because of acute myocardial infarction
        
  • BMJ, March 1/2003 - News in Brief
    • Combined aspirin and clopidogrel treatment improves outcomes, study finds
        
  • The Lancet, Volume 361, March 1, 2003
    • Effectiveness and costs of interventions to lower systolic blood pressure and cholesterol: a global and regional analysis on reduction of cardiovascular-disease risk - Christopher J L Murray, Jeremy A Lauer, Raymond C W Hutubessy, Louis Niessen, Niels Tomijima, Anthony Rodgers, Carlene M M Lawes, David B Evans
        
  • Lancet Neurology 2003
    • Stroke and Neurology a plea from the WFN
    • Time to strike out stroke
        
  • Neurology 2003; 60 738-742
    • Activities of daily living instruments Optimizing scales for neurologic assessments
        
  • BMJ 29 March 2003
    • Cross sectional survey of effectiveness of lipid lowering drugs in reducing serum cholesterol concentration in patients in 17 general practices
    • Increase in blood glucose concentration during antihypertensive treatment as a predictor of myocardial infarction population based cohort study
        
  • Stroke; Volume 34, Number 3, March 2003
    • Use of a Field-to-Stroke Center Helicopter Transport Program to Extend Thrombolytic Therapy to Rural Residents  - (this article talks about the ground ambulance transport programs at the London Health Sciences Centre and the hospital to stroke centre transfer and community hospital by-pass in place at Kingston General Hospital)
        
  • Stroke; Volume 34, Number 3, March 2003
    • Letters to the Editor - Diurnal Variance in Stroke Onset - Michael D Hill, Nancy J Newcommon, Michael Bursztyn
    • Atrial Fibrillation, Stroke and Acute Antithrombotic Therapy - Philip M Bath
      Plasma lipid profile and incident ischemic stroke The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study
    • Prospective study of serum homocysteine and risk of ischemic stroke among patients with pre-existing coronary heart disease
    • Ischemic Lacunar stroke in patients with and without potential mechanism other than small-artery disease
    • Cerebral hemodynamics and metabolism in patients with symptomatic occlusion of the internal carotid artery
    • Contrast-enhanced three-dimensional magnetic resonance angiography of atherosclerotic internal carotid stenosis as the non-invasive imaging modality in Revascularization decision making
    • Occupational Therapy for Stroke Patients A systematic review when, where and how?
    • Association between diabetes and stroke subtype on survival and functional outcome 3 months after stroke Data from the European BIOMED stroke project
    • Cardiac Baroreceptor sensitivity predicts long-term outcome after acute ischemic stroke
    • Relationship between process and outcome in stroke care
    • Telemedicine for Acute Stroke Triumphs and Pitfalls
        

 

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