Background Aspirin is a well-established therapy for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular
events. However, its role in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease is unclear, …

Background In the primary analysis of the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE)
trial, now published in the Journal, we report that the daily use of aspirin did not provide a …

Background Information on the use of aspirin to increase healthy independent life span in
older persons is limited. Whether 5 years of daily low-dose aspirin therapy would extend …

Objective: To characterize the safety profile of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (DF) for the treatment
of HIV infection in adults over the first 4 years of use. Methods: A tenofovir DF expanded …

Medical Education 2011: 45: 381–388 Objective This study aimed to determine whether the
practice of mindfulness reduces the level of stress experienced by senior medical students. …

Automatic measurement of blood vessel tortuosity is a useful capability for automatic
ophthalmological diagnostic tools. We describe a suite of automated tortuosity measures for blood …

Background Treatment inertia is a recognised barrier to blood pressure control, and simpler,
more effective treatment strategies are needed. We hypothesised that a hypertension …

Background Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure thresholds have been defined for
the diagnosis of mild hypertension but not for its treatment or for other blood pressure …

This article looks at some of the hype and the reality of e-books in higher education. An e-book
is an electronic book that can be read digitally on a computer screen, a special e-book …

Objective: Although most national guidelines for the diagnosis and management of
hypertension emphasize that the initiation and modification of blood pressure (BP)-lowering …