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Editorials

See-sawing cardiovascular risk factors: a call for action in New Zealand

Harvey White

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Ethnic trends in stroke in New Zealand: closing the gaps or widening?

John Fink

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Non-small cell lung cancer—time for optimism!

Penny Bradbury

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Original Articles

Trends in major cardiovascular risk factors in Auckland, New Zealand: 1982 to 2002–2003

Patricia Metcalf, Robert Scragg, David Schaaf, Lorna Dyall, Peter Black, Rod Jackson

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Incidence of stroke in women in Auckland, New Zealand. Ethnic trends over two decades: 1981–2003

Lorna Dyall, Kristie Carter, Ruth Bonita, Craig Anderson, Valery Feigin, Ngaire Kerse, Paul Brown, on behalf of the Auckland Regional Community Stroke (ARCOS) Study Group

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Blood pressure prevalences and levels for a multicultural population in Auckland, New Zealand: results from the Diabetes, Heart and Health Survey 2002/2003

Dudley Gentles, Patricia Metcalf, Lorna Dyall, Robert Scragg, Peter Black, David Schaaf, Gerhard Sundborn, Rod Jackson

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Blood pressure changes over 7 years in a large workforce cohort in New Zealand

Patricia Metcalf, Robert Scragg, Rod Jackson

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Prognostic value of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in patients with chronic heart failure

Chuncai Xue, Ying Feng, Jinshan Wo, Yigang Li

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The Bold Promise Project: a system change in primary care to support cardiovascular risk screening

Gary Sinclair, Andrew Kerr

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Web-based assessment of cardiovascular disease risk in routine primary care practice in New Zealand: the first 18,000 patients (PREDICT CVD-1)

Lot Bannink, Susan Wells, Joanna Broad, Tania Riddell, Rod Jackson

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Case Reports

Cardiac perforation secondary to a fractured rib sustained in a ram attack in New Zealand: a review of ovine fatalities and an important lesson regarding the severely injured chest

Philip Grieve

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Haemorrhagic lesions in a critically ill patient

Lenneke Haas, Steven van Lelyveld, Maria Nohlmans, David Tjan

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Viewpoint

Adjuvant chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer: a New Zealand perspective

Rita Sasidharan, David Gibbs, Richard Sullivan, Andrew Simpson, David Perez, Timothy Christmas, Mark McKeage

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Miners' complaints

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Proceedings

Proceedings of Health Research Society of Canterbury's Scientific Meeting, Wednesday 1 November 2006

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Proceedings of the 185th Scientific Meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, Thursday 2 November 2006

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Medical Image

Acute colic

Ramanan Rajasundaram, Alison Bradley, Nick George

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Salamol and asthma in New Zealand—with responses by Reti and NZMJ Editor

Robin Taylor, Julian Crane, John Kolbe, Shane Reti, Frank Frizelle

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Nine-to-fiveism

Roger Ridley-Smith

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Public Health’s new direction?

Geoffrey Horne

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On media report affecting statin use by the New Zealand public

Tony Fitchett

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Obituaries

Robert Duncan Scott

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Arthur Verrier Jones

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Brian Alexander Scobie

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Notice

Heart Foundation Grants Awarded November 2006

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Book Review

Failure to Atone: The True Story of a Jungle Surgeon in Vietnam (Allen Hassan)

Brian McMahon

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