NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 355, No. 8.
This summary covers the issue of August 24, 2006. Featured are articles on overweight, obesity, and the risk of death among persons 50 to 71 years old, body-mass index and mortality in Korean men and women, aneurysm syndromes caused by mutations in the TGF-β receptor, predicting death in Chagas' heart disease; review articles on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and on dystonia; a case report of a woman with difficulty walking; and Perspective articles on imposing personal responsibility for health, on West Virginia's Medicaid plan, on overweight and mortality among baby boomers, and on Chagas' disease. |
