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Editorial

Diabetes epidemiology in New Zealand—does the whole picture differ from the sum of its parts?

Juliet Berkeley, Helen Lunt

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Original Articles

First national audit of the outcomes of care in young people with diabetes in New Zealand: high prevalence of nephropathy in Māori and Pacific Islanders

Adrian Scott, Robyn Toomath, David Bouchier, Raymond Bruce, Nic Crook, David Carroll, Rick Cutfield, Paul Dixon, John Doran, Peter Dunn, Cheri Hotu, Maunt Khant, Maureen Lonsdale, Helen Lunt, Esko Wiltshire, Denise Wu

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Ethnic differences in Type 2 diabetes care and outcomes in Auckland: a multiethnic community in New Zealand

Tom Robinson, David Simmons, David Scott, Eileen Howard, Karen Pickering, Rick Cutfield, John Baker, Ashwin Patel, John Wellingham, Sara Morton

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Health status of New Zealand European, Maori, and Pacific patients with diabetes at 242 New Zealand general practices

Andrew Tomlin, Murray Tilyard, Alexander Dawson, Susan Dovey

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The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study: are its findings consistent with the overall New Zealand population?

Richie Poulton, Robert Hancox, Barry Milne, Joanne Baxter, Kate Scott, Noela Wilson

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Metabolic equivalent (MET) intensities of culturally-specific physical activities performed by New Zealanders

Karen Moy, Robert Scragg, Grant McLean, Harriette Carr

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Do snacks of exercise lower blood pressure? A randomised crossover trial

Raina Elley, Emma Bagrie, Bruce Arroll

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Dietary patterns of New Zealand European preschool children

Reremoana Theodore, John Thompson, Clare Wall, David Becroft, Elizabeth Robinson, Phillipa Clark, Jan Pryor, Chris Wild, Ed Mitchell

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Review Article

Epidemiology of diabetes in New Zealand: revisit to a changing landscape

Grace Joshy, David Simmons

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Case Reports

Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the thyroid

Sheng-Fong Kuo, Hung-Yu Chang, Chuen Hsueh, Jen-Der Lin

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Cutaneous paraneoplastic syndrome (acrokeratosis paraneoplastica) preceding squamous cell carcinoma of the glottic larynx

Gorkem Aksu, Ahmet Karadeniz

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Special Series

PHARMAC and Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer in New Zealand: Herceptin or deception?

Martin Rosevear

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Odds and ends of a year’s surgery. A case of appedicitis with general suppurative peritonitis. (Sudden death on eleventh day.)

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Medical Image

Stalk failure

Sarah Mathai, Krishna Sudeep, Mathew John

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

New Zealand guidelines for early management of meningococcal disease—time for revision?

Amanda Kvalsvig, Michael Baker

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Response to McNaughton and colleagues regarding their article—Interferon beta, PHARMAC, and political directives: in the best interests of people with multiple sclerosis?

Nola Rawson

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Metastatic thyroid carcinoma: a case from Australia

Shane Anderson, Clive O’Connor

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Neurotoxic reaction to citalopram

John Thwaites, Christopher Hutchinson, Christopher Collins

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Expected versus demonstrated skills of postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) doctors in New Zealand

John Thwaites , Dale Sheehan

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Alcohol advertising in New Zealand

Harold Coop

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Obituary

Sir John Staveley

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Book Reviews

How to pass. The insider’s guide to the RACP examination (Ingrid Naden, Zoe Raos)

John Young, John Fink

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The good writing guide (Margaret McLaren)

Brennan Edwardes

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