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Patients with a history of ischemic stroke and atherosclerosis benefitted from more intense LDL cholesterol-lowering statin-based therapies for recurrent stroke risk reduction.
Privileging the randomised controlled trial in education suggests a preoccupation with scientific measurement over research that privileges participants’ voices, especially in a feminised profession.
In a systematic review and meta-analysis, Gareth Hollands and colleagues study the relationship between receipt of visual feedback of results following medical imaging procedures and risk-reducing health-related behaviors.
A meta-analysis found mixed evidence that CCBs are superior or inferior to any specific other antihypertensive drug at reducing major CV events.
Endometriosis is a disease that affects a significant proportion of women and its infiltrative pattern is entirely dependent on the vascular supply of lesions. Several factors seem to trigger the process of angiogenesis in endometriotic lesions. During the last years, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), a group of nuclear proteins that regulate gene transcription and that seem to regulate energy consumption and expenditure, have been also implicated in the pathophysiology of angiogenesis. Their ability to regulate the course of cancer and improve the survival rates of patients...