In an article appearing in the May 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Dr. Mark A. Yarborough from the University of California, Davis, proposes the need to develop better disclosure, transparency, and measures of social value for persons recruited to participate in clinical research. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/d8appv7

Dr. James Stone, a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Canada, promotes the necessity, positive benefits, and overall mortality reduction with cardiac rehabilitation in patient with coronary artery disease as noted in their article appearing in the May 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/boopj26

Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, a Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology from the Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology at the University of California, Irvine, in Orange, CA, reveals results of a study reported in the May 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings that expands the understanding of the obesity paradox across multiple ethnicities. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/cotwsdd

In the May 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, available at: http://tinyurl.com/c7tp8jb
Dr. Ruchi Gupta, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago in IL, interprets recently published guidelines on childhood food allergies to aid clinicians in their practice.

Context: Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing ethnically diverse group in the U.S.; they are also the most overweight. Mexico is now second to the U.S. in experiencing the worst epidemic of obesity in the world. Objectives of this study were to (1) conduct a systematic review of obesity- relatedinterventionstargetingLatinoslivingintheU.S.andLatinAmericaand(2)developevidence- based recommendations to inform culturally relevant strategies targeting obesity. Evidence acquisition:...

Background: Epidemiological evidence suggests that fruit consumption may lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases through blood pressure (BP)–lowering effects; little is known on the independent effect of raw fruit and fruit juice on BP. Objective: The objective was to quantify associations of raw fruit and fruit juice consumption with BP by using cross-sectional data from the INTERnational study on MAcro/micronutrients and blood Pressure (INTERMAP) of 4680 men and women aged...