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ARTICLE: Office Visits Prior to Screening Colonoscopy-Reply. AUTHORS: Kevin R. Riggs, Eun Ji Shin, Jodi B. Segal JOURNAL: JAMA. 2016 Jun 28;315(24):2734-2735. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.4298. In Reply to: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2530523 Dr. Leow… Read More »Office Visits Prior to Screening Colonoscopy-Reply.

ARTICLE: Trans-ethnic Meta Analysis and Functional Annotation Illuminates the Genetic Architecture of Fasting Glucoseand Insulin AUTHORS: Ching-Ti Liu, Sridharan Raghavan, Nisa Maruthur, Edmond Kato Kabagambe, Jaeyoung Hong, Maggie C.Y. Ng, Marie-France Hivert, Yingchang Lu, Ping An, Amy R. Bentley, Anne M. Drolet,… Read More »Trans-ethnic Meta Analysis and Functional Annotation Illuminates the Genetic Architecture of Fasting Glucoseand Insulin

ARTICLE: Inflammatory arthritis and sicca syndrome induced by nivolumab and ipilimumab AUTHORS: Laura C. Cappelli, Ana Kristina Gutierrez, Alan N. Baer, Jemima Albayda, Rebecca L.… Read More »Inflammatory arthritis and sicca syndrome induced by nivolumab and ipilimumab

ARTICLE: Reengineering the Physical Examination for the New Millennium? AUTHORS: William G. Nelson, Antony Rosen, Peter J. Pronovost JOURNAL: JAMA. 2016;315(22):2391-2392. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.4470. Most patients hope for more face-to-face time with their… Read More »Reengineering the Physical Examination for the New Millennium?

ARTICLE: A genomic approach to therapeutic target validation identifies a glucose-lowering GLP1R variant protective for coronary heart disease AUTHORS: Robert A. Scott, Daniel F. Freitag,… Read More »A genomic approach to therapeutic target validation identifies a glucose-lowering GLP1R variant protective for coronary heart disease

ARTICLE: Right Ventricular Functional Reserve in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension AUTHORS: Steven Hsu, Brian A. Houston, Emmanouil Tampakakis, Anita C. Bacher, Parker S. Rhodes, Stephen C.… Read More »Right Ventricular Functional Reserve in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

ARTICLE: Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Incident Coronary Heart Among Blacks in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study AUTHORS: Lisandro… Read More »Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Incident Coronary Heart Among Blacks in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study

ARTICLE: Understanding the impact of second-hand smoke exposure on clinical outcomes in participants with COPD in the SPIROMICS cohort AUTHORS: Nirupama Putcha, R Graham Barr, Meilan K… Read More »Understanding the impact of second-hand smoke exposure on clinical outcomes in participants with COPD in the SPIROMICS cohort

ARTICLE: Changes in Food-Specific IgE Over Time in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) AUTHORS: Emily C. McGowan, Roger D. Peng, Päivi M.… Read More »Changes in Food-Specific IgE Over Time in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

ARTICLE: Diabetes Medications as Monotherapy or Metformin-Based Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis AUTHORS: Nisa M. Maruthur, Eva Tseng, Susan… Read More »Diabetes Medications as Monotherapy or Metformin-Based Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis