Marc A. Pfeffer

TL;DR: Epidemics of chikungunya fever are currently occurring on several islands in the Indian Ocean: Reunion, Mayotte, Mauritius, and Seychelles.

TL;DR: Pravastatin 40 mg daily did not reduce blood pressure in survivors of myocardial infarction without overt hypercholesterolaemia and the adjusted risk of incident systolic hypertension was not reduced.

TL;DR: A better understanding of abnormalities in pulsatile load in hypertension will facilitate risk stratification in and treatment of patients with hypertension.

TL;DR: The use of an erythropoesis‐stimulating agent, darbepoetin alfa (DA), to treat anaemia in patients with diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease was associated with a heightened risk of stroke and neutral efficacy in the Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Events with Aranesp Therapy (TREAT), but this association has not been evaluated in another randomized, placebo‐controlled trial.

TL;DR: CRP is an independent predictor for subsequent decline in renal function and reinforces the idea that inflammation may be related to the pathophysiology of progressive renal disease.