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  • What is the hepatitis B vaccination regimen in chronic kidney disease?
    Kheng Yong Ong, BSc (Pharm) (Hons), Hong Yun Wong, BSc (Pharm) (Hons) and Giat Yeng Khee, PharmD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2018, 85 (1) 32-34; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17017

    For those with advanced chronic kidney disease, the authors recommend a higher dose, more doses, or both.

  • Preventing cardiovascular disease in older adults: One size does not fit all
    Ariela R. Orkaby, MD, MPH, Oyere Onuma, MD, MSc, Saadia Qazi, DO, MPH, J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH and Jane A. Driver, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2018, 85 (1) 55-64; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.16119

    The balance of risk and benefit may differ considerably for 2 patients of the same age if one is fi t and the other is frail.

  • A New Year’s transition and looking forward
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2018, 85 (1) 6-7; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.01018

    Time to take stock of advances in—and obstacles to—the delivery of quality healthcare.

  • ADHD: Overdiagnosed and overtreated, or misdiagnosed and mistreated?
    Michael J. Manos, PhD, Kimberly Giuliano, MD and Eric Geyer, BA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 873-880; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15051

    Combined behavioral and drug therapy is best.

  • Scapular rash and endocrine neoplasia
    Muhammed Razmi T, MD, DNB, Debajyoti Chatterjee, MD and Davinder Parsad, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 831-832; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16121

    A woman in her 30s presents with an itchy skin-colored rash over her scapula of 8 years’ duration.

  • Can effective obesity counseling fit into the 20-minute appointment?
    John A. Zambrano, MD, MHS and Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 835-837; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16034

    Information from a previsit questionnaire lays the foundation for effective and reimbursable counseling and interventions.

  • Chronic kidney disease in African Americans: Puzzle pieces are falling into place
    Chronic kidney disease in African Americans: Puzzle pieces are falling into place
    Joseph V. Nally, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 855-862; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17007

    African Americans are disproportionately affected; genetic variants in APOL1 provide an important explanation.

  • Toward understanding chronic kidney disease in African Americans
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 824-825; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84b.11017

    African Americans respond differently to some treatments than the white male patients who participated in the clinical trials.

  • Abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea in a 32-year-old woman
    Neha Agrawal, MD, Amandeep Singh, MD, Thomas Plesec, MD, David Liska, MD, Bradley Confer, DO, Jessica Philpott, MD, PhD and Florian Rieder, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 847-854; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16085

    The patient also has numerous painful ulcerations on her skin and in her mouth.

  • 2017 Update in perioperative medicine: 6 questions answered
    Ryan Munyon, MD, Steven L. Cohn, MD, FACP, SFHM, Barbara Slawski, MD, MS, SFHM, Gerald W. Smetana, MD, MACP and Kurt Pfeifer, MD, FACP, SFHM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 863-872; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.17068

    Topics: cardiac risk assessment, surgery after percutaneous intervention, statins, sleep apnea, bridging anticoagulation, and frailty.

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