The Practitioner - 1868-2012: supporting general practitioners for more than 140 years - June 2007

SEARCH

Your Practitioner

Site Tools

ARTICLE KEY

= Registered users

= Paid-up subscribers

About access »

Special Interest

The Practitioner 2007;251(1695)

June 2007

14 Jan 2010

Symposium: Cardiovascular medicine

Contents

GPs can help smokers quit - p7

Clinical Reviews

Encourage exercise in patients with asthma - p8

Chocolate shown to reduce blood pressure - p11-13

No difference in mortality between stents and medical treatment - p11

Hysterectomy trialled as day surgery - p13

Mid-pregnancy ultrasound can detect risk of developmental delay - p13-15

Benzodiazepines used with caution in primary care - p15

High rate of smoking relapse after pregnancy - p15-16

Switching to low-tar cigarettes does not reduce CVD risk - p16

Intervention in older people with depression may reduce mortality - p19-20

Confidentiality the key to patients' choice of sexual health services - p22-26

Consider residual symptoms in depression recovery - p22

Glitazones may increase risk of oedema in heart failure - p27

Early diagnosis is key in autism - p28

Symposium

June 2007: Assessing stroke risk in patients with AF - p30-43

June 2007: Tackling the QOF2 indicators for AF - p41-43

Preventing sudden death in patients with cardiomyopathies - p44-57

Should your patient have CABG or stents? - p59-65

June 2007: Updated NICE guidance will improve GP management of CVD - p66-75

Casebook/Special Report

June 2007: Traffic light system helps GPs assess fever in children - p78-84

June 2007: Acne - p86-91

June 2007: Workplace-based assessment explained - p92-94

Haslam

Haslam's view: My polymyxoflagia deception - p99

CLICK ON IMAGES

Back Top

© THE PRACTITIONER 2012