학술논문
CORRESPONDENCE.
Document Type
Letter
Author
Robins, Sander J; Despres, Jean-Pierre; Vaughan, Carl J; Buckley, Brendan M; Wald, Nicholas; Law, Malcolm; Durrington, P N; Bates, C J; Brown, M J; Violi, Francesco; Micheletta, Fausta; Iuliano, Luigi; Collins, Rory; Armitage, Jane; Parish, Sarah; Sleight, Peter; Peto, Richard; Benson, J R; Veronesi, U; Maisonneuve, P.
Source
Subject
*LETTERS to the editor
*CORONARY disease
*TAMOXIFEN
*BREAST cancer
*BLOOD pressure
*AIDS
*SOMATOTROPIN
*VERTIGO treatment
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Language
ISSN
0140-6736
Abstract
Presents several letters to the editors of "Lancet" and responses. Findings of the Heart Protection Study (HPS) which found that therapy with simvastatin reduced the composite primary endpoint of coronary heart disease (CHD) death; Discovery that tamoxifen may not significantly reduce the rate of breast cancer in women who have had hysterectomies; Effect of diet on blood pressure; Concerns over the high rate of HIV/AIDS in Africa; Focus on HIV-1 incidence and prevalence in Uganda; Efforts to control HIV/AIDS in India; Update from Mbarara University Teaching Hospital in Uganda; The connection between human pituitary growth hormone and risk of developing cancer; Method of relieving benign paroxysmal positional vertigo which developed following a trip on a roller coaster.