VOLUME 57 - NUMBER 6 - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER - 2011

EDITORIAL

• Abstract – the trailer of scientific communication

• Early determinants of cardiovascular diseases in the life course: a paradigm shift to prevention

POINT OF VIEW

• Clinic: the art of balancing disease and subject

IMAGE IN MEDICINE

• Idiopathic spontaneous pneumoperitoneum

• Retroperitoneal sarcoma-like malakoplakia

GUIDELINES IN FOCUS

• Gastroesophageal reflux disease: drug therapy

ACCREDITATION

• Update on gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): diagnosis

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

• Factors associated with nosocomial pneumonia in hospitalized individuals

• Identification of malnutrition risk factors in hospitalized patients

• Depression, emotional and social aspects in the abortion context: a comparison between two Brazilian capitals

• Quantitative ultrasound and risk of fractures in elderly women

• Risk of overweight and obesity in preschoolers attending private and philanthropic schools

• Influence of body composition on bone mass in children and adolescents

• Risk factors for alloimmunization in patients with sickle cell anemia

• Obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in school children from Sorocaba, SP

• Anthropometric and body-mass composition suggests an intrinsic feature in Williams-Beuren syndrome

• Chemotherapy beyond first-line in stage IV metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

• Risk factors for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Southern Brazil

REVIEW ARTICLES

• Assistance model for patients with asthma in primary care

• Endometrium in women with polycystic ovary syndrome during the window of implantation

• Provision of investigational drug after clinical research – Review of literature, national and international guidelines

INSIGHTS FROM BRAZILIAN MEDICAL JOURNALS

• Original research articles on the cardiopulmonary system recently appeared in Brazilian clinical and surgical journals

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