NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 355, No. 3.
This summary covers the issue of July 20, 2006. Featured are articles on TCF7L2 polymorphisms and progression to diabetes, trends in the prevalence and outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, mutant neurogenin-3 in congenital malabsorptive diarrhea, the “gender gap” in authorship of academic medical literature, and the possible dark side of kinase inhibitors; a review article on biventricular pacing; a case report of a man with a rapidly progressive gait disorder; and Perspective articles on language barriers to health care, the past, present, and future of cardiac transplantation, the process of obtaining organs for transplant recipients, and the causes of chronic diarrhea. |
