Table of Contents

March 6, 2001; 134 (5)

Articles

  • The Cost–Utility of Screening for Depression in Primary Care

    • Marcia Valenstein,
    • Sandeep Vijan,
    • John E. Zeber,
    • Kathryn Boehm,
    • and Amna Buttar
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:345-360

    Annual and periodic screening for depression in primary care cost more than $50 000/quality-adjusted life-year, but one-time screening is cost-effective. The cost-effectiveness of screening is likely to improve if treatment becomes more effective.

  • Therapy for Helicobacter pylori in Patients with Nonulcer Dyspepsia: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials

    • Loren Laine,
    • Philip Schoenfeld,
    • and M. Brian Fennerty
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:361-369

    This meta-analysis provides little support for the use of Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy in patients with nonulcer dyspepsia.

  • Should All Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Microalbuminuria Receive Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors?: A Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data

    • The ACE Inhibitors in Diabetic Nephropathy Trialist Group*
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:370-379

    In normotensive patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors significantly reduced progression to macroalbuminuria and increased chances of regression. Beneficial effects were weaker at the lowest levels of microalbuminuria but did not differ according to other baseline risk factors. Changes in blood pressure cannot entirely explain the antiproteinuric effect of ACE inhibitors.

Brief Communications

  • Improvement in Atrophic Gastritis and Intestinal Metaplasia in Patients in Whom Helicobacter pylori Was Eradicated

    • Toshifumi Ohkusa,
    • Kazuhiko Fujiki,
    • Ichizen Takashimizu,
    • Jiro Kumagai,
    • Toru Tanizawa,
    • Yoshinobu Eishi,
    • Tetsuji Yokoyama,
    • and Mamoru Watanabe
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:380-386

    In the year after successful Helicobacter pylori eradication, precancerous lesions improved in most patients who had had dyspepsia and H. pylori infection.

Updates

  • Update in Addiction Medicine

    • Robert K. Schneider,
    • James L. Levenson,
    • and Sidney H. Schnoll
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:387-395

    The literature described in this Update is intended to provide information about addiction medicine that may not be readily available to internists. The information is broadly divided into the following categories: nomenclature, alcohol, opioids, tobacco, cocaine, club drugs, marijuana, and psychogenetics.

Review

  • Sleep and Sleep Disorders in Pregnancy

    • Jennifer R. Santiago,
    • Michael S. Nolledo,
    • Wendy Kinzler,
    • and Teodoro V. Santiago
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:396-408

    This review discusses sleep changes in normal pregnancy and sleep disorders occurring in the pregnant woman, including physiologic bases for alterations in sleep and changes in respiratory physiology during pregnancy.

History of Medicine

  • Clinical Trials That Have Influenced the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism: A Historical Perspective

    • Jack Hirsh and
    • Shannon M. Bates
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:409-417

    The authors review the important clinical trials involving anticoagulant therapy and vena caval interruption. The studies are discussed from a historical perspective, and an attempt is made to analyze both the thought processes that prompted their design and the reasons why they changed practice.

Editorials

  • Depression Screening Is Not Enough

    • Kurt Kroenke
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:418-420

    The findings of Valenstein and colleagues in this issue do not imply that detecting depression is unimportant. Instead, the authors' cost–utility analysis raises questions about universal screening (as opposed to selective case finding) and about merely improving detection without simultaneously enhancing treatment and follow-up.

  • Antipersonnel Land Mines: A Vector for Human Suffering

    • James C. Cobey and
    • Nathaniel A. Raymond
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:421-422

    Antipersonnel land mines are an epidemic that has afflicted the world's poorest, war-wrecked nations, maiming and killing scores of civilians each year. In the final analysis, the Mine Ban Treaty is the only vaccine for the mine epidemic. As physicians know so well, prevention is the best medicine.

Letters

  • Tragic Events of April 1996

    • Kenneth J. Simcic
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:424

  • Tragic Events of April 1996

    • Robert Starkenburg
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:424

  • Tragic Events of April 1996

    • Katherine E. Tiller
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:424-425

  • Tragic Events of April 1996

    • Harry J. Driedger
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:425

  • Tragic Events of April 1996

    • Stephen Sandroni
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:425

  • Tragic Events of April 1996

    • Jack Coulehan
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:425-426

  • Losartan Reduces Hematocrit in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Secondary Erythrocytosis

    • Demetrios V. Vlahakos,
    • K.P. Marathias,
    • and E.N. Kosmas
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:426-427

  • Possible Drug Interaction between Itraconazole and Vinorelbine Tartrate Leading to Death after One Dose of Chemotherapy

    • Elena Bosque
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:427

Medical Writings

  • James Edgar Paullin: Internist to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Oslerian, and Forgotten Leader of American Medicine

    • Mark E. Silverman and
    • J. Willis Hurst
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:428-431

    Few remember James Edgar Paullin. Yet during the 1940s, he was one of the best known and most influential physicians in the United States. His most famous patient was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Medical Writings: Book Notes

  • Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995

    • Rebecca J. Kurth
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:432

  • Women and Health

    • Anne W. Moulton
    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:432

Book Listings

Medical Notices

Summaries for Patients

  • The Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Primary Care Patients for Depression

    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:S83

  • Combination Therapies Commonly Used for Stomach Ulcers Are Probably Not Useful for Treating Stomach Discomfort

    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:S84

  • The Effect of ACE Inhibitors on Kidney Function in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:S86

  • Improvement of Precancerous Changes in the Stomach after Treatment of Helicobacter pylori Infection

    Ann Intern Med March 6, 2001 134:S87
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