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ISSN 0954-6820 Contents VOLUME 229 NO. 1 JANUARY 1991 EDITORIAL Breakthroughs in ascites: effects on bottom Assessment of hypothalamic-pitituary function lines in patients with familial amyloidotic H. O. Conn polyneuropathy B.-O. Olofsson, K. Grankvist, T. Olsson, K. Boman, K. Forsberg, I. Lafvas & F. Lithner Pancreatic autoantibodies and pancreatic ORIGINAL ARTICLES function in Sj6gren’s syndrome A double-blind gastroscopic evaluation of the G. Sundkvist, G. Lindahl, P. Koskinen effects of etodolac and naproxen on the & J. Bolinder gastrointestinal mucosa of rheumatic Effects of cigarette smoking on thyroid patients function and the prevalence of goitre, G. Bianchi Porro, I. Caruso, M. Petrillo, thyrotoxicosis and autoimmune thryoiditis F. Montrone & S. Ardizzone U.-B. Ericsson & F. Lindgarde Hypoglycaemic episodes during intensified Prophylactic effect of self-administered insulin treatment: increased frequency but pump-driven subcutaneous IgG infusion in no effect on cognitive function patients with antibody deficiency: a P. Reichard, B. Berglund, A. Britz, S. Levander triple-blind cross-over study comparing & U. Rosenqvist P-IgG levels of 3 gl‘ versus 6 g I"! Changes in plasma high density lipoprotein L. Remvig, V. Andersen, N. E. Hansen cholesterol and phospholipid in acute viral & H. Karle hepatitis and cholestatic jaundice Platelet fatty acids and function in two distinct J. E. Ahaneku, J. O. Olubuyide, E. O. Agbedana regions of Belgium: relationship to age and & G. O. Taylor dietary habits Sudden death and sleeping history among S. Renaud, G. De Backer, C. Thevenon, Finnish men J. V. Joossens, J. Vermylen, M. Kornitzer T. Seppala, M. Partinen, A. Penttild, & M. Verstraete R. Aspholm, E. Tiainen & A. Kaukianen Drugs and femoral neck fracture: a case-control study CASE REPORTS J. Jensen, L. H. Nielsen, N. Lyhne, J. Hallas, K. Brosen & L. F. Gram High cardiac output as a paraneoplastic Combined zidovudine and interferon-alpha syndrome treatment in patients with AIDS-associated J. F. Somville, A. P. Lenaers, M. Abramowicz Kaposi’s sarcoma & P. E. Neve R. de Wit, S. A. Danner, P. J]. M. Bakker, Two IgM paraproteins bearing cryoglobulin J]. M. A. Lange, J. K. M. Eeftinck Schattenkerk and anti-smooth muscle activities in a & C. B. N. Veenhof patient with Waldenstrém’s A form of familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia macroglobulinaemia not due to a mutation in the apolipoprotein F. Ruiz-Palomo, Y. Revilla, P. Gonzalez Porque B gene & M. Serrano Rios S. Fazio, A. Sidoli, A. Vivenzio, A. Maietta, Potential role of insulin in the clearance of S. Giampaoli, A. Menotti, R. Antonini, remnant lipoproteins in G. Urbinati, F. E. Baralle & G. Ricci dysbetalipoproteinaemia Serum erythropoietin levels in the anaemia of P. B. Duell & E. L. Bierman chronic disorders J. Camacho, F. Arnalich, A. F. Zamorano & J. J. Vazquez CORRESPONDENCE information for correct referral to monitored beds AZT — does it prevent occurrence of J. Jonsbu, A. Rollag, O. Aase, C. T. Lippestad, salmonelloses in AIDS patients? K. E. Arnesen, J. Erikssen & A. Koss P. Dellamonica, E. Bernard, C. Pradier, Reflexogenic neuronal and humoral responses J. Durant, H. Etesse-Carsenti, P. Elbaze, to selective stimulation of low-pressure V. Mondain & M. Carles cardiopulmonary receptors in man S. Agewall, B. Rhea, B. Persson, B. Karlberg, G. Wallin & O. K. Andersson INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Observer variation in the clinical assessment of the thyroid gland A. E. Jarlov, L. Hegediis, T. Gjorup & ]. M. Hansen Contrasting effects of lisinopril and nifedipine on albuminuria and tubular transport VOLUME 229 NO. 2 FEBRUARY 1991 functions in insulin dependent diabetics with nephropathy EDITORIAL R. Holdaas, A. Hartmann, M. G. Lien, Citation fiequency and journal impact: valid L. Nilsen, J. Jervell, P. Fauchald, O. Djeseland indicators of scientific quality? & K. J. Berg P. O. Seglen Skeletal muscle depressed calcium and phosphofructokinase in chronic heart failure are upregulated by captopril — a double- blind, placebo-controlled study REVIEW ARTICLE C. Sylvén, E. Jansson, T. Cederholm, Fifty years of progress with antithrombotic I. L. Hildebrand & B. Beermann drugs — with much more to come: a Serum creatinine: an independent predictor of perspective survival after stroke S. Sherry P. J. Friedman Treating insulin resistance in hypertension with metformin reduces both blood pressure and metabolic risk factors ORIGINAL ARTICLES K. Landin, L. Tengborn & U. Smith Mechanical ventilation in medical and neurological diseases: 11 years of experience CASE REPORTS U. G. Ludwigs, S. Baehrendtz, M. Wanecek & G. Matell Pneumothorax in a patient with Wegener's Effect of recombinant human erythropoietin granulomatosis during treatment with treatment on blood pressure and some immunosuppressive agents haematological parameters in healthy men M. Ogawa, R. Azemoto, Y. Makino, Y. Mori, B. Berglund & B. Ekblom S. Ueda, M. Wakashin & M. Ohto Diurnal variation in the levels of antidiuretic Gastric lymphoma causing granulocytopenia hormone in the elderly and cold intolerance, with recovery after R. Asplund & H. Aberg treatment Prostacyclin production in myocardial P. Stavem, T. Rorvik, P. Brandtzaeg, infarction in the acute phase and during F. Brosstad, R. Nordhagen & P. Grabner follow-up Familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia complicated G. Rasmanis, O. Vesterqvist, K. Gréen, by cerebellar ataxia and steatocystoma O. Edhag & P. Henriksson multiplex Rapid and correct diagnosis of myocardial W. Araki, S. Hirose, Y. Mimori, S. Nakamura, infarction: standardized case history and J]. Kimura, K. Ohno & T. Shimada clinical examination provide important SHORT COMMUNICATION Early thrombolytic treatment reduces analgesic requirement in patients with myocardial ACTH 1-24 decreases hepatic lipase activities infarction and low density lipoprotein K. S. Kristensen, J]. Haarbo, S. Munkvad concentrations in healthy men & M. Stoltenberg A.-L. Berg, P. Hansson & P. Nilsson-Ehle Antibodies to neutrophil granulocyte myeloperoxidase and elastase: autoimmune SUPPLEMENT 734; Evaluation of Very Early responses in glomerulonephritis due to Thrombolysis, edited by J. Herlitz hydralazine treatment L. Nassberger, A.-C. Johansson, S. Bjérck & A. G. Sjoholm Determinants of mild fasting VOLUME 229 NO. 3 MARCH 1991 hypertriglyceridaemia on non-insulin- dependent diabetes EDITORIAL C. Baynes, A. D. Henderson, C. L. Hughes, Antioxidant therapy in congestive heart W. Richmond, D. G. Johnston & R. S. Elkeles failure: is there any advantage? P. K. Ganguly CASE REPORTS Antacid-induced osteomalacia: a case report ORIGINAL ARTICLES with a histomorphometric analysis Atrial natriuretic peptide in dialysis patients M. Kassem, E. F. Eriksen, F. Melsen under various conditions of volume & L. Mosekilde homoeostasis A case of severe pancytopenia caused by J. Plum & B. Grabensee ibuprofen Normotensive young men with family histories R. Lindblad & S. Rédjer of hypertension gain weight and decrease Central hypothyroidism due to isolated TRH their intraerythrocyte sodium content deficiency in a depressive man during a 5-year follow-up M. Mori, Y. Shoda, M. Yamada, M. Murakami, B. R. Widgren, H. Herlitz, O. Jonsson, T. Iriuchijima, K. Ohshima, I. Kobayashi G. Gerglund, J. Wikstrand & O. K. Andersson & S. Kobayashi Determinants of carotid intima-media Dilated cardiomyopathy associated with thickness: a population-based Chlamydia trachomatis infection ultrasonography study in Eastern Finnish M. Odeh, A. Oliven, S. Rauchfleisch men & H. Bassan R. Salonen & J. T. Salonen Felodipine in the treatment of hypertensive type II diabetics: effect on glucose SHORT COMMUNICATION homeostasis T. Kjellstroém, E. Blychert & F. Lindgarde Counterregulatory hormonal response to Effect of cholestyramine treatment on biliary insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in insulin- lipid secretion rates in normolipidaemic men dependent diabetic patients: a comparison of M. Carrelia, S. Ericsson, C. Del Piano, equimolar amounts of porcine and semi- B. Angelin & K. Einarsson synthetic human insulin Steady-state concentrations and dosage of I. Bendtson & C. Binder digoxin in relation to kidney function in hospitalized patients over 70 years of age A. Algotsson, E. Sanz & G. Alvan CORRESPONDENCE Atrial fibrillation and left atrial enlargment: cause or effect? Insensitivity of the forced hyperventilation J. S. Andersen, H. Egeblad, U. Abildgaard, provocation test J. Aldershvile & J. Godtfredsen S. D. Rosen, J. C. King & P. G. F. Nixon Weak relationships between blood antioxidant glomerulonephritis and in total bilateral enzymes and serum lipids or apolipoproteins renal cortical necrosis L. Guemouri, B. Herbeth, Y. Artur, C. Jeandel J. H. Thaysen, O. J. Nielsen, L. Brandi & & G. Siest W. Szpirt Responses to the observations of Guemouri et al. CASE REPORTS P. V. Luoma & H. Korpela A case of pheochromocytoma associated with meningioma VOLUME 229 NO. 4 APRIL 1991 S. Tanaka, M. Okazaki, G. Egusa, S. Takai, H. Mochizuki, K. Yamane, H. Hara & EDITORIAL M. Yamakido Third-degree atrioventricular block in an Television viewing, life style and obesity athlete S. Réssner A. Herndndez-Madrid, C. Moro, E. Marin Huerta & J. Rayo ORIGINAL ARTICLES Adrenocortical insufficiency: a rare Weight-for-height standards in adulthood presentation of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma J]. Karlberg & H.-O. Mossberg M. Oudkerk Pool, M. J. Janssen, P. van der Hypofibrinolysis in patients with hypertension Valk & A. B. J. Groeneveld and elevated cholesterol J.-H. Jansson, B. Johansson, K. Boman & CORRESPONDENCE T. K. Nilsson Effect of fish diet versus meat diet on blood Response to recombinant human lipids, coagulation and fibrinolysis in healthy erythropoietin treatment in myelodysplastic young men syndromes (MDS) P. Marckmann, J. Jespersen, T. Leth & R. Hast, F. Celsing, M. Ekman & L. Stenke B. Sandstrém Acupuncture in angina pectoris Degree of coronary artery disease predicted by E. S. Kraemer, M. de F. L. Cardoso & exercise testing Y. Yamamura I. Aursnes, A. M. Benestad, E. Sivertssen, Septum and posterior wall thickness and QO. Skjeggestad & K. Gronseth disease duration in systemic sclerosis Cause of death in unsuccessful prehospital I. Hegedtis & L. Czirjak resuscitation Left ventricular hypertrophy and duration of T. Silfvast systemic sclerosis Blood analyses and survival in symptom- and K. Caidahl & E. Kazzam survey-detected lung cancer patients Allopurinol-azathioprine interaction E. Hannisdal & T. Engan I. W. Boyd Glycaemic thresholds for hypoglycaemic symptoms, impairment of cognitive function, and release of counterregulatory hormones VOLUME 229 NO. 5 MAY 1991 in subjects with functional hypoglycaemia O. Snorgaard, L. H. Lassen, A. M. Rosenfalck EDITORIAL & C. Binder Bleeding complications to oral anticoagulant Cavity of ignorance therapy: multivariate analysis of 1010 H. Mérnstad & B. Norberg treatment years in 551 outpatients J. Launbjerg, H. Egeblad, J. Heaf, N. H. Nielsen, REVIEW ARTICLE A. M. Fugleholm & K. Ladefoged Acupuncture in angina pectoris: does Diversity in receptor signalling: cellular acupuncture have a specific effect? individuality and the search for selective S. Ballegaard, C. N. Meyer & W. Trojaborg drugs Erythropoietin deficiency in acute crescentic B. B. Fredholm ORIGINAL ARTICLES The value of MCA, CA 15-3, CEA and CA-125 for discrimination between metastatic breast Thyroid disease in middle-aged and elderly cancer and adenocarcinoma of other Swedish women: thyroid-related hormones, primary sites thyroid dysfunction and goitre in relation to R. De Wit, F. J. Hoek, P. J. M. Bakker age and smoking 407 & C. H. N. Veenhof K. Petersen, G. Lindstedt, P.-A. Lundberg, C. Bengtsson, L. Lapidus & E. Nystrém High incidence of multinodular toxic goitre in the elderly population in a low iodine intake CASE REPORTS area vs. high incidence of Graves’ disease in Osteomyelitis of the wrist in a patient with the young in a high iodine intake area: Hodgkin’s disease comparative surveys of thyrotoxicosis T. G. Hayes, E. P. Gill & U. Swarna epidemiology in East-Jutland Denmark and Cholestatic liver reaction during heparin Iceland therapy P. Laurberg, K. M. Pedersen, H. Vestergaard R. Olsson & T. Leonhardt & G. Sigurdsson A case of systemic mastocytosis; therapeutic Characteristics of patients resistant to efficacy of ketotifen antihypertensive drug therapy P. Povoa, J]. Ducla-Soares, A. Fernandes H. Isaksson, M. Danielsson, G. Rosenhamer, & A. G. Palma-Carlos J. C. Konarski-Svensson & J. Ostergren Low density lipoprotein density and composition in hypercholesterolaemic men treated with HMG CoA reductase inhibitors and gemfibrozil VOLUME 229 NO. 6 JUNE 1991 M. Tilly-Kiesi & M. ]. Tikkanen The incidence of recurrence and EDITORIAL hypothyroidism following treatment with antithyroid drugs, surgery or radioiodine in Diastolic heart function and failure all patients with thyrotoxicosis in Malm6 M. Kupari during the period 1970-1974 J. Berglund, S. B. Christensen, J. F. Dymling & B. Hallengren REVIEW ARTICLE Collagenous colitis: a prospective trial of On lowering lipids in the post-infarction prednisolone in six patients H. Sloth, C. Bisgaard & A. Grove patient B. Lewis The effect of the calcium antagonist, isradipine, on working capacity, pulmonary function, morbidity and survival rate in patients with severe chronic obstructive ORIGINAL ARTICLES pulmonary disease (COPD): a randomized, Prevalence of renal artery stenosis in diabetes double-blind, placebo-controlled study mellitus — an autopsy study 489 A. M. Galloe, N. Graudal, J. R. Petersen, P. Leth & M. Galloe P. T. Sawicki, S. Kaiser, L. Heinemann, H. Frenzel & M. Berger Plasma chromogranin A+B, neuropeptide Y and catecholamines in pheochromocytoma Thrombocytosis in adults: analysis of 777 patients patients S. Gréndal, B. Eriksson, B. Hamberger C. R. Santhosh-Kumar, M. D. Yohannan, & E. Theodorsson K. E. Higgy & S. A. Al-Mashhadani Impaired blood rheology: a risk factor after The Tromso Study: the positive predictive stroke? value of gamma-glutamyltransferase and E. Ernst, K. L. Resch, A. Matrai, M. Buhl, an alcohol questionnaire in the detection of P. Schlosser & H. F. Paulsen early-stage risk drinkers 497 O. H. Nilssen & O. H. Forde Haemodynamic effects of coffee and caffeine in CASE REPORTS normal volunteers: a placebo-controlled Apathetic thyrotoxicosis in adolescence clinical study S. Teelucksingh, R. Pendek & P. L. Padfield E. Casiglia, S. Bongiovi, C. D. Paleari, Bilateral adrenal tumours in primary S. Petucco, M. Boni, G. Colangeli, M. Penzo & aldosteronism: localization of a unilateral A. C. Pessina aldosteronoma by dexamethasone Autonomic nerve antibodies and autonomic suppression scan nerve function in Type 1 and Type 2 C. E. M. Hollak, M. F. Prummel & M. M. C. diabetic patients Tiel-van Buul G. Sundkvist, P. Lind, B. Bergstrom, B. Lilja & Zinc sulphate therapy for Wilson’s disease S. L. Rabinowe after acute deterioration during treatment Long-term diet modification and platelet with low-dose D-penicillamine activity C. Veen, C. J. A. van den Hamer & P. W. de A. D. Beswick, A. M. Fehily, D. S. Sharp, Leeuw S. Renaud & J. Giddings Sulphasalazine-induced reversible The effect of dietary vitamin K on warfarin- hypersensitivity pneumonitis and fatal induced anticoagulation vibrosing alveolitis: report of two cases F. M. Pedersen, O. Hamberg, K. Hess & R. Leino, K. Liippo & T. Ekfors L. Ovesen High frequency of asymptomatic visual field defects in subjects with transient ischaemic CORRESPONDENCE attacks or minor strokes P. Falke, B. M. Abela Jr, C. E. T. Krakau, Plasma von Willebrand factor levels and B. Lilja, F. Lindgdrde, P. Maly & L. Stavenow congestive heart failure Left ventricular function and wall thickness in S. Ariad, A. Dvilansky, R. Sobel & I. Nathan long-term insulin-dependent diabetes Von Willebrand factor in plasma as risk mellitus: an echocardiographic study indicator for cardiovascular events A. Schmidt, G. Grofmann, H. Hauner, T. K. Nilsson, B. Norberg, S. Wallberg-Jonsson W. Koenig, T. Jansen, M. Stauch & V. Hombach & S. R. Dahlqvist Effects of felodipine ER and Changes in clinically separated strains of hydrochlorothiazide on blood rheology in glucose non-fermented Gram-negative bacilli essential hypertension — a randomized, following the induction of imipenem/ double-blind, cross-over study cilastatin W. Koenig, M. Sund, E. Ernst, R. Hehr, J. Fujita, K. Negayama, K. Higuchi, M. Nakano, L. Binner, J. Rosenthal & V. Hombach Y. Yamaji & S. Irino Interleukin-6 concentrations in the serum of patients with AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma during treatment with interferon- INDEX alpha R. de Wit, M. H. M. Raasveld, R. J. M. ten SUPPLEMENT 735; Hypertension and Glucose Berge, P. A. van der Wouw, P. J. M. Bakker Tolerance — Effects of Antihypertensive Therapy, & C. H. N. Veenhof edited by U. Smith