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Original research

• Randomized pragmatic trial of nasogastric tube placement in patients with upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding (9 January, 2017)

  Don C Rockey, Chul Ahn, Silvio W de Melo
• Impact of sustained virological response to chronic hepatitic C antiviral therapy on new onset diabetes mellitus type 2 after controlling for metabolic syndrome (23 February, 2017)

  Prashant Pandya, Chaitanya Pant, Ryan Taylor, Olurinde Oni
• Effectiveness of acarbose in treating elderly patients with diabetes with postprandial hypotension (17 February, 2017)

  Jie Zhang, Lixin Guo
• High serum soluble CD200 levels in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (8 February, 2017)

  Funda Sari, Saadet Gumuslu, Ramazan Cetinkaya, Metin Sarikaya, Arzu Didem Yalcin
• Early intervention results in lower mortality in patients with cancer hospitalized for metastatic spinal cord compression (30 January, 2017)

  Achuta Kumar Guddati, Gagan Kumar, Iuliana Shapira
• Methylation in the matrix metalloproteinase-2 gene is associated with cerebral ischemic stroke (13 February, 2017)

  Hsiu-Fen Lin, Edward Hsi, Ling-Chun Huang, Yi-Chu Liao, Suh-Hang H Juo, Ruey-Tay Lin