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Is everything you know wrong?

2007; BMJ; Volume: 335; Issue: 7611 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.39281.508345.47

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Douglas Kamerow,

Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention

With the pace of new research, sometimes I feel like the title of a favorite comedy album of my youth performed by the Firesign Theatre: Everything you know is wrong (still funny, by the way, and available at http://laughstore.stores.yahoo.net/firtheatseze.html). This week's BMJ makes me wonder whether some of my cherished medical beliefs still deserve my fidelity. Everyone knows that all patients with diabetes should monitor their blood glucose levels, right? Maybe not. Andrew Farmer and colleagues randomized 453 …