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Editorial

Reducing health inequalities: a foremost priority

Norman Sharpe

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Original Articles

Ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in New Zealand

Wing Cheuk Chan, Craig Wright, Tania Riddell, Susan Wells, Andrew J Kerr, Geeta Gala, Rod Jackson

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The burden of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in the coronary care unit by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status—PREDICT CVD-9

Andrew J Kerr, Andrew McLachlan, Sue Furness, Joanna Broad, Tania Riddell, Rod Jackson, Susan Wells

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Cardiovascular risk management at a Māori-led Primary Health Organisation—findings from a cross-sectional audit

David Peiris, Jonathan Murray, Doreen Scully, Virantha Tilakawardene, Lorraine Hetaraka-Stevens, Tereki Stewart, Anushka Patel

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Acute stroke services in New Zealand: changes between 2001 and 2007

P Alan Barber, John Gommans, John Fink, H Carl Hanger, Patricia Bennett, Nina Ataman

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Utilising practice management system data for quality improvement in use of blood pressure lowering medications in general practice

Jim Warren, Rekha Gaikwad, Thusitha Mabotuwana, John Kennelly, Timothy Kenealy

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Establishment of a Difficult Hypertension Clinic in Whangarei, New Zealand: the first 18 months

Walter van der Merwe

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Cardiovascular disease risk factor assessment and management in gout: an analysis using guideline-based electronic clinical decision support

Keith Colvine, Andrew J Kerr, Andrew McLachlan, Peter Gow, Sunil Kumar, Jason Ly, Chris Wiltshire, Elizabeth Robinson, Nicola Dalbeth

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A survey of thyroid function test abnormalities in patients presenting with atrial fibrillation and flutter to a New Zealand district hospital

David D W Kim, Simon Young, Rick Cutfield

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Bleeding events in patients receiving enoxaparin for the management of non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTEACS) at Dunedin Public Hospital, New Zealand

Hesham Al-Sallami, Ruth Ferguson, Gerard Wilkins, Andrew Gray, Natalie J Medlicott

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Acute rheumatic fever in the Waikato District Health Board region of New Zealand: 1998–2004

Polly Atatoa-Carr, Anita Bell, Diana Lennon

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Review Article

“As-required” combination therapy with inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta-2 agonists for asthma: current evidence and recommendations

D Robin Taylor, Lata Jayaram, M Innes Asher, Michael J Epton

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Clinical Correspondence

Hybrid management of an unusual presentation of acute ischaemic ventricular septal defect

Matthew J Boyle, Amul K Sibal, Peter N Ruygrok, Mark Edwards, Peter Alison

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Lymphangitis carcinomatosis mimicking miliary tuberculosis

John Welch, Geoffrey Welsh

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Medical image. Chronic abdominal pain

Ankit Shrivastav, Jyotyrmoy Pal

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Bertillon's Nomenclature of Disease and of Cause of Death (part 3)

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Open access journals and a case of phytophotodermatitis—and NZMA response

José G B Derraik, Cameron McIver

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Ninety years on: What we still need to learn from “Black November” 1918 about pandemic influenza

Nick Wilson, Michael Baker

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Ninety-six percent of New Zealand smokers support smokefree cars containing preschool children

George Thomson, Nick Wilson, Deepa Weerasekera, Richard Edwards

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European melanoma incidence: a response to Professor Shaw's melanoma editorial

Mary Jane Sneyd, Brian Cox, Anthony Reeder, Ann Richardson

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The importance of zinc: a response to Dr Davidson's letter

William Ferguson

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Practice nursing in New Zealand

Mark Peterson

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Obituaries

David Simpson Cole

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Keith Richards Simcock

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Philip Gladstone Downey

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David Malcolm McIlroy

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Ashton Fitchett

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Notice

Distinguished Editors Series: NEJM Masterclass on Medical Writing (11 December 2008, Singapore, by Jeffrey M Drazen)

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Erratum

A school and community outbreak of tuberculosis in Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Book Review

Practical Cardiology (2nd edition; Tracey Baker, George Nikolic, Simon O'Connor)

Victor Chen

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