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Less Than Perfect Procedure

G iven the high prevalence of coronary artery disease in Western countries, selection of the optimal therapeutic strategy for individual cardiac patients has become an issue of utmost costbenefit importance. During the past two decades, large clinical trials have established the respective roles of medical treatment versus coronary artery bypass surgery in the management of patients with corona...

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The American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association have jointly produced clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases since 1980. Writing committees are charged with assessing the evidence as an independent group of authors and with developing, updating, or revising recommendations for clinical practice. Practice guidelines ar...

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Eating motives and the controversy over dieting: eating less than needed versus less than wanted.

Anti-dieting sentiment has grown in recent years. Critics of restrained eating suggest that it evokes counter-regulatory responses that render it ineffective or even iatrogenic. However, restrained eaters are not in negative energy balance and overweight individuals show reduced eating problems when losing weight by dieting. A distinction is often drawn between physiological and psychological h...

Territorial Foresight: More than Planning Less than Prospective

After the Y2K crisis many futurists feared that it might take another millennium to receive the same attention the year 2000 brought to us. Fortunately, we have seen that part of the interest in the future that the turning of century and millennium provoked seems to carry on. One of the most remarkable features of this continued appeal is regional foresight, or should I say regional planning? T...