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Claude Lenfant
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 96
Citations - 11904
Claude Lenfant is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blood pressure & National Cholesterol Education Program. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 96 publications receiving 11434 citations.
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Definition of Metabolic Syndrome Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association Conference on Scientific Issues Related to Definition
TL;DR: Although ATP III identified CVD as the primary clinical outcome of the metabolic syndrome, most people with this syndrome have insulin resistance, which confers increased risk for type 2 diabetes, when diabetes becomes clinically apparent, CVD risk rises sharply.
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Definition of metabolic syndrome: report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association conference on scientific issues related to definition.
TL;DR: Although ATP III identified CVD as the primary clinical outcome of the metabolic syndrome, most people with this syndrome have insulin resistance, which confers increased risk for type 2 diabetes, when diabetes becomes clinically apparent, CVD risk rises sharply.
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Effect of Corticosteroids for Fetal Maturation on Perinatal Outcomes: NIH Consensus Development Panel on the Effect of Corticosteroids for Fetal Maturation on Perinatal Outcomes
Larry C. Gilstrap,Robert Christensen,William H. Clewell,Mary E. D'Alton,Ezra C. Davidson,Marilyn B. Escobedo,Dwenda K. Gjerdingen,Jan Goddard-Finegold,Robert L. Goldenberg,David A. Grimes,Thomas N. Hansen,Ralph E. Kauffman,Emmett B. Keeler,William Oh,Elizabeth J. Susman,Marlyn G. Vogel,Mary Ellen Avery,Philip L. Ballard,Roberta A. Ballard,Patricia Crowley,Thomas J. Garite,Gary D.V. Hankins,Alan H. Jobe,Janna G. Koppe,James Maher,Irwin R. Merkatz,Seetha Shankaran,Kit N. Simpson,John C. Sinclair,Theodore A. Slotkin,H. William Taeusch,Linda L. Wright,Duane F. Alexander,Mary Anne Berberich,Michael B. Bracken,Leslie T. Cooper,Larry Culpepper,Jerry M. Elliott,John H. Ferguson,Frederic Frigoletto,Dorothy Berlin Gail,William H. Hall,M. Douglas Jones,Barbara Medoff-Cooper,Gerald B. Merenstein,Judith M. Whalen,Claude Lenfant,Ada Sue Hinshaw +47 more
TL;DR: Antenatal corticosteroid therapy is indicated for women at risk of premature delivery with few exceptions and will result in a substantial decrease in neonatal morbidity and mortality, as well as substantial savings in health care costs.
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Shattuck lecture--clinical research to clinical practice--lost in translation?
TL;DR: The magnitude of the problem of translating research knowledge into clinical practice and suggestions for closing this gap are outlined by Claude Lenfant.
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Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) Resetting the Hypertension Sails
TL;DR: The National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP), coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), has released its long-awaited Joint National Committee (JNC) 7 report.