Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study

Flanigan RC, Reda DJ, Wasson JHM, et al. 5 year outcome of surgical resection and watchful waiting for men with moderately symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia a Department of Veterans Affairs cooperative study. J Urol 1998 160 12-17. 

Lepor H, Williford WO, Barry MJ, et al. The efficacy of terazosin, finasteride, or both in benign prostatic hyperplasia. Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Study Group. N Engl I Med 1996 335 533-539. 

Rosenheck R, Dunn L, Peszke M, et al. Impact of clozapine on negative symptoms and on the deficit syndrome in refractory schizophrenia. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Clozapine in Refractory Schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 1999 156 88-93. 

Cushman WC, Reda DJ, Perry HM, Williams D, Abdellatif M, Materson BJ. Regional and racial differences in response to antihypertensive medication use in a randomized controlled trial of men with hypertension in the United States. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents. Arch Intern Med 2000 160 825-831. 

Tsuang DW, Skol AD, Faraone SV, Bingham S, Young KA, et al. 2001. Examination of genetic linkage of chromosome 15 to schizophrenia in a large veterans affairs cooperative study sample. Am J Med Gen 105 662-668. 

Rosenheck R, Perlick D, Bingham S, Liu-Mares W, Collins J, Warren S, Leslie D, Allan E, Campbell EC, Caroff S, Corwin J, Davis L, Douyon R, Dunn L, Evans D, Frecska E, Grabowski J, Graeber D, Herz L, Kwon K, Lawson W, Mena F, Sheikh J, Smelson D, Smith-Gamble V. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on the Cost-Effectiveness of Olanzapine. 

Mayberg MR, Wilson E, Yatsu F for the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Programe 309 Trialist Group (1991). Carotid endarterectomy and prevention of cerebral ischaemia in symptomatic carotid stenosis. Journal of the American Medical Association 266 3289-3294... 

O Brien WA, Hartigan PM, Martin D, Esinhart J, Hill A, Benoit S, Rubin M, Simberkoff MS, Hamilton JD, the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on AIDS. Changes in plasma HIV-1 RNA and CD4+ lymphocyte counts and the risk of progression to AIDS. N Engl J Med 1996 334 426-31. 

Kaufman JS, Reda DJ, Eye CL, Goldfarb DS, Henderson WG, Kleinman JG, Vaamonde CA Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Erythropoietin in Hemodialysis Patients. Diagnostic value of iron indices in hemodialysis patients receiving epoetin. Kidney Int2001 60(l) 300-8. 

In order to investigate the mechanisms of adverse events associated with alphai-adrenoceptor antagonists, the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study database was analysed with respect to the relation between adverse events and hypotension in 1229 men with benign prostate hyperplasia. Treatment with terazosin produced the following rates of adverse events dizziness 19%,... 

Lepor H, Jones K, Williford W. The mechanism of adverse events associated with terazosin an analysis of the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study. J Urol 2000 163(4) 1134-7. 

Placebo-associated blood pressure response and adverse effects in the treatment of hypertension Observations from a Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study. Arch. Intern. Med. 2000, 160, 1449-1454. 

Materson BJ, Reda DJ, Cushman WC, et al. Single-drug therapy for hypertension in men A comparison of six antihypertensive agents with placebo. The Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents. N Engl J Med 1993 328 914-921. 

Morrison DA, Sethi G, Sacks J, et al. A multicenter, randomized trial of percutaneous coronary intervention versus bypass surgery in high-risk unstable angina patients. The AWESOME (Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study 385, Angina With Extremely Serious Operative Mortality Evaluation) investigators from the Cooperative Smdies Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Controlled CUn Trials 1999 20 601-619. 

Niewoehner DE, Erbland ML, Deupree RH, et al. Effect of systemic glucocorticoids on exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group. New Engl J Med 1999 340 1941-1947. 

Wasson JH, RedaDJ, Bruskewitz RC, etal, fordie Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Transurethral Resection of the Prostate. A comparison of transurethral surgery with watchful waiting for moderate symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. N Engl J Med 1995 332 75-79. 

Fiore LD, Ezekowitz MD, Brophy MT, Lu D, Sacco J, Peduzzi P. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program clinical trial comparing combined warfarin and aspirin with aspirin alone in survivors of acute myocardial infarction primary results of tiie CHAMP study. Circulation (2002) 105, 557-63. 

Sethi, G.K., Copeland,J.G., Goldman, S., Moritz, T., Zadina, K., and Henderson, W.G. (1990) Implications of Preoperative Administration of Aspirin in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study on Antiplalelet Therapy. J. Am. CoU. Cardiol. 15,15-20. 

Goldman S, Zadina K, Moritz T, et al. Long-term patency of saphenous vein and left internal mammary artery grafts after coronary artery bypass surgery results from a Department of Veterans Affairs cooperative study. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004 44 2149-56. 

Johnson WC, Lee KK, et al. A comparative evaluation of polytetrafluoroethylene, umbilical vein, and saphenous vein bypass grafts for femoral-popliteal above-knee revascularization a prospective randomized Department of Veterans Affairs cooperative study. J Vase Surg 2000 32 268-77. 

In terms of graft patency, a large prospective randomized Veterans Affairs Cooperative study (33) compared human umbilical vein with ePTFE and autogenous saphenous vein for lower extremity bypass. For patients in whom a bypass was performed for limb salvage (critical ischemia), 5-year cumulative assisted primary patency rates for human umbilical vein were 53%, which was better than the ePTFE rate of 37%... 

Kaufman JS, O Connor TZ, Zhang JH, et al Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Hemodialysis Access Graft Thrombosis randomized controlled trial of clopidogrel plus aspirin to prevent hemodialysis access graft thrombosis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2003 14 2313-2321. 

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