Issue Summary August 20, 2013




Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast show

Summary: Summary of the August 20, 2013 issue, including articles on blood pressure and mortality in chronic kidney disease, depression in older African Americans, tofacitinib for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, new oral anticoagulants for thromboprophylaxis after total hip or knee replacement, and handling of missing data and rescue therapy in clinical trials, as well as the USPSTF recommendation statement on primary care interventions to prevent child maltreatment and commentaries on the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court's decision on BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene patents, and meningitis in men who have sex with men.