Daily warfarin dosing requirements clearly decrease with advancing age. To examine the relation between age and warfarin dosing, researchers analyzed data from 101 U.S. sites that were ...

† Excluding children with target INR above 3. ‡ Results presented as means. § Genotyping for variant alleles *2 and *3 only except in validation dataset, which also included test for *5, *6 ...

A Peoria Heights nursing home received fines totaling up to $100,000 from the Illinois Department of Public Health after ...

Laboratory testing for inflammation, such as the C-reactive protein test and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, are almost ...

A man in his early 90s presented with purple discolouration and pain in his toes of uncertain onset. He had multiple, cardiovascular diseases for which he was receiving atorvastatin, low-dose aspirin ...

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