Annals of internal medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Long-Term Follow-up of the Italian Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Screening Trial.
Recent reports showed that the protective effect of flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) screening was maintained up to17 years, although differences were reported by sex. ⋯ Italian Association for Cancer Research, Italian National Research Council, Istituto Oncologico Romagnolo, Fondo "E. Tempia," University of Milan, and Local Health Unit ASL-Torino.
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The incidence of pulmonary embolism has been increasing, but its case-fatality rate is decreasing, suggesting a lesser severity of illness. The clinical importance of patients with pulmonary embolism isolated to the subsegmental vessels is unknown. ⋯ Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and French Ministry of Health Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique.