Cocaine-Related Vasculitis Causing Upper-Limb Peripheral Vascular Disease
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Abstract
Letters17 July 2001Cocaine-Related Vasculitis Causing Upper-Limb Peripheral Vascular DiseaseNorm R.C. Campbell, MD, FRCPC and Nadia Khan, MDNorm R.C. Campbell, MD, FRCPCUniversity of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada (Campbell, Khan)Search for more papers by this author and Nadia Khan, MDUniversity of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada (Campbell, Khan)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-135-2-200107170-00019 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:Kumar and Smith (1) describe a case of cocaine-related vasculitis associated with peripheral vascular disease in a 48-year-old man with a history of smoking. In the case report, a blood pressure of 146/92 mm Hg is described as normal. However, this blood pressure reading is consistent with stage I hypertension and needs to be recognized as abnormal (2) and further evaluated. If this elevated pressure persisted, then appropriate management would be required, especially since smoking and cocaine use are risk factors for atherosclerotic disease (2, 3).References1. Kumar PD, Smith HR. Cocaine-related vasculitis causing upper-limb peripheral vascular disease [Letter]. Ann Intern Med. 2000;133:923-4. [PMID: 11103072] LinkGoogle Scholar2. . The sixth report of the Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure. Arch Intern Med. 1997;157:2413-46. [PMID: 9385294] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Dressler FA, Malekzadeh S, Roberts WC. Quantitative analysis of amounts of coronary arterial narrowing in cocaine addicts. Am J Cardiol. 1990;65:303-8. [PMID: 2301258] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: Norm R.C. Campbell, MD, FRCPC; Nadia Khan, MDAffiliations: University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada (Campbell, Khan) PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoCocaine-Related Vasculitis Causing Upper-Limb Peripheral Vascular Disease P. Dileep Kumar and Howard R. Smith Metrics 17 July 2001Volume 135, Issue 2Page: 142KeywordsBlood pressureCocaineHypertensionMedical risk factorsPeripheral vascular diseaseVasculitis ePublished: 17 July 2001 Issue Published: 17 July 2001 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2001 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".