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Item Metadata only Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with acute myocardial infarction: effects of streptokinase(BMJ Publishing Group, 1989) Tan, A.; Van Loenhout, T.; Lamfers, E.; Corten, P.; Kloppenborg, P.; Benraad Th, J.; Phillips, P.; Hodsman, G.; Johnston, C.Item Metadata only Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with acute myocardial infarction: effects of streptokinase(BMJ Publishing Group, 1989) Phillips, P.; Sasadeus, J.; Hodsman, G.; Horowitz, J.; Saltups, A.; Johnston, C.Plasma concentrations of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (mean (SEM] were measured in 135 patients admitted to two coronary care units with myocardial infarction, ischaemic chest pain, or non-ischaemic chest pain. Concentrations were significantly higher in patients with acute myocardial infarction not treated with systemic thrombolysis (60.4 (14.3) pg/ml) than in patients with non-ischaemic chest pain (21.1 (4.3) pg/ml). Patients with ischaemic chest pain had intermediate values (39.3 (7.1) pg/ml). Patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with intravenous streptokinase had normal concentrations of plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (20.2 (3.6) pg/mg), which were significantly lower than those in patients with myocardial infarction not given streptokinase. These changes could not be explained by factors such as age, pre-existing hypertension, renal dysfunction, or cardiac failure, nor treatment other than streptokinase. Raised plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide in acute myocardial infarction may be a homoeostatic response acting to reduce atrial pressures by natriuresis, diuresis, and venodilatation. The lower concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with streptokinase may reflect a short term beneficial haemodynamic effect of streptokinase.Item Metadata only Drug companies' evidence to justify advertising(Elsevier, 1989) Wade, V.A.; Mansfield, P.R.; McDonald, P.J.Ten international pharmaceutical companies were asked by letter to supply their best evidence in support of marketing claims for seventeen products. Fifteen replies were received. Seven replies cited a total of 67 references: 31 contained relevant original data and only 13 were controlled trials, all of which had serious methodological flaws. There were four reports of changes in advertising claims and one company ceased marketing nikethamide in the third world. Standards of evidence used to justify advertising claims are inadequate.Item Metadata only Health for All in South Australia: The historical context(Wakefield Press, 1995) Raftery, John; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only The Social Construction of Anorexia Nervosa(Sage, 1995) Hepworth, Julie; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only Health policy development in the 1980s and 1990s(Wakefield Press, 1995) Raftery, John; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only Conflicting opinions? Anorexia nervosa, medicine and feminism(Sage, 1995) Hepworth, Julie; Griffin, C.; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only Reconceptualising anorexia nervosa: Medical discourse and feminist analyses(Deakin University Press, 1995) Hepworth, Julie; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only Saving South Australia's babies: The Mothers' and Babies' Health Association(1995) Raftery, John; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only Family doctors and nutrition promotion(Smith-Gordon, 1995) Worsley, Anthony; Horwarth, Caroline; Ball, Madeleine; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only The Food System: A User's Guide(Earthscan, 1995) Tansey, Geoff; Worsley, Anthony; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only Deconstructing narrative therapy: An overview of the uses and limitations of poststructuralism as practice(1995) Hepworth, Julie; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : Public HealthItem Metadata only Occupational cancer.(1996) Gun, Richard T.Item Metadata only Epidemiology and detection of cervical cancer(1996) Guest, C.; Griffith, E.; Lewis, S. Y.Item Metadata only Which nutrition information do shoppers want on food labels?(1996) Worsley, AnthonyItem Metadata only Improving the breastfeeding knowledge of health professionals(1996) McIntyre, Ellen; Lawlor-Smith, C.Item Metadata only Home oxygen therapy in Australia(Fondazione clinica del lavoro edizioni, 1996) Crockett, A.; Moss, J.; Cranston, J.; Alpers, J.Item Metadata only The Internet and OHS. Part 3: networking the global OHS community(1996) Pisaniello, D.; Brooks, B.OHS practitioners and organisations using computer mediated communication and the Internet are forming a virtual OHS community on a global scale. The tools and resources of the Internet are increasingly being applied to enhance professional communication and facilitate information exchange in digital format. A worldwide virtual OHS community will assist practitioners in developing countries and overcome some of the geographical and time barriers experienced by those in Australia and New Zealand. Although the local membership of the virtual community is currently relatively small, there is considerable scope for development of communication mechanisms, including the provision of OHS specific mailing lists, chat channels and interactive web resources. Initiatives in this area will need to have clearly defined objectives, but at the same time be flexible to accommodate advances in technology.Item Metadata only Spray painters: Wheezy or well?(CCP Pty Ltd for Work Health Company, 1996) Pisaniello, D.Item Metadata only Occupational Health and Safety caught up in the net(1996) Pisaniello, D.