In summary, we have demonstrated for the first time the prognostic utility of a single 7-week hs-TnT measurement in routine ACS patients which helps refine medium term risk stratification and medium term treatment strategies in this patient cohort.
In addition, all patients without diabetes mellitus were traced to examine the short to medium term risk of new-onset diabetes mellitus.
The authors have demonstrated the prognostic utility of a single 7-week hs-TnT measurement in routine ACS patients and that it could be used to assist medium term risk stratification in this patient cohort.
However some fine tuning would allow to better balance medium term risks and long term goals.
Credit Suisse First Boston, in a report on Venezuela's economic prospects, says that a witch hunt within Pdvsa, hurting oil production, is a "potential medium-term risk if Chávez loses office".
But the lack of a medium term fiscal plan is worrisome, and the source of risks in the not too distant future.
A Merrill Lynch oil analyst said last summer that Hamburg-born Lord Browne's impending retirement was a "potential medium-term risk for shareholders," reflecting growing jitters in the City over BP's prospects once the Cambridge University and Stanford Business School-educated executive leaves the helm.
Therefore, if a decision in favour of capacity payments is made at political level, then efforts should be made to ensure a strategic, centrally administered capacity reserve (strategic reserve) as a short- and medium-term risk buffer.
For the first time, they also signaled that further "unwelcome" declines in inflation were a greater immediate concern than the medium-term risk of faster growth leading to accelerating inflation.
"The numbers suggest that, despite the medium-term risk of a housing bubble, banks are much more willing to take a punt on the housing market than on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and this is consistent with the consumer driven growth that has stylised recent UK output growth," said Carl Astorri, senior economic adviser to the EY ITEM Club.
Several studies prove that DSE is a useful tool for short- to medium-term risk stratification of diabetic patients.
