The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Task Force
on Practice Guidelines regularly reviews existing guidelines to determine when an update or …

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strongly predispose people to both renal as well as cardiovascular (CV) injury. Hypertension …

The understanding of the basic physical relationships between nano-scale structural
variables and the macroscale properties of polymer nanocomposites remains in its infancy …

The goal of the International HapMap Project is to determine the common patterns of DNA
sequence variation in the human genome and to make this information freely available in …

ContextIncidence of end-stage renal disease due to hypertension has increased in recent
decades, but the optimal strategy for treatment of hypertension to prevent renal failure is …

In 1946 the mothers of all babies born during the first week of March were contacted eight
weeks after delivery by Dr. Douglas and his colleagues in England, Wales, and Scotland …

It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies in the management or prevention of disease …

This book presents a review and criticism of all sociological literature on suicide, from Emile
Durkheim's influential Suicide (1897) to contemporary writings by sociologists who have …

Context.—The efficacy of counseling to prevent infection with the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has not been definitively shown …

JIM DOUGLAS, JR., AND HH RACHFORD, JR. 1. Introduction. Many practical heat
conduction questions lead to prob-lems not conveniently solvable by classical methods …