This study shows that the inhibitors work even when only very small amounts of the protein are present. Furthermore, kidney function was three times more likely to become normal in patients who received ACE inhibitors than in those who did not. In most of those patients whose long-term H. pylori was cured, stomach lining abnormalities improved. When researchers looked at patients with both H. pylori infection and dyspepsia, those whose H. pylori was treated did not differ from a group whose H. pylori infection was not treated, regardless of whether the infection was cured. This Disease Antipersonnel land mines kill or injure more than 2,000 people each month, mostly in developing nations.
Many victims die because they get no medical care.
Others are permanently disabled because rehabilitation and prostheses are not available. An editorial in this issue of Annals of Internal Medicine says that efforts to fund mine removal are praiseworthy, but the prevention of land mine casualties is the only way to cure this disease. The 1997 Mine Ban Treaty prohibits the production, stockpiling, transfer and use of antipersonnel land mines. Since the treaty, the number of mine-producing countries has dropped from 54 to 16, international trade in land mines has gone from a flood to a trickle, and land mine casualties have begun to decrease. Physicians must continue to embrace this politically neutral, public health approach to the problem, by urging the United States to join the nations that have signed or have ratified the treaty, the authors say.