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Rosuvastatin to Prevent Vascular Events in Men and Women with Elevated C-Reactive Protein
In this trial of apparently healthy persons without hyperlipidemia but with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels, rosuvastatin significantly reduced the incidence...
Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching
Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. A...
Beyond Cholesterol
IT is now well established that hypercholesterolemia is an important cause of coronary heart disease, and clinical intervention studies have demonstrated the therapeutic value o...
Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis
Functional imaging studies have shown that certain brain regions, including posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and ventral anterior cingulate cortex (vACC), consistently show grea...
Metabolic syndrome—a new world‐wide definition. A Consensus Statement from the International Diabetes Federation
Abstract Aims To establish a unified working diagnostic tool for the metabolic syndrome (MetS) that is convenient to use in clinical practice and that can be used world‐wide so ...
Validation of a combined comorbidity index
The basic objective of this paper is to evaluate an age-comorbidity index in a cohort of patients who were originally enrolled in a prospective study to identify risk factors fo...
Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm
Algorithms that must deal with complicated global functions of many variables often exploit the manner in which the given functions factor as a product of "local" functions, eac...
Global Burden of Diabetes, 1995–2025: Prevalence, numerical estimates, and projections
OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of diabetes and the number of people with diabetes who are ≥20 years of age in all countries of the world for three points in time, i.e., th...
Core capabilities and core rigidities: A paradox in managing new product development
This paper examines the nature of the core capabilities of a firm, focusing in particular on their interaction with new product and process development projects. Two new concept...