NEJM Audio Summary: Supplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 355, No. 8.

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DATE : Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:18:14 -0500
Entered in Database : 2006-08-23 15:18:14
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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-beta 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.