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For more information, visit or is a registered trademark of Intermap Technologies Corporation For Intermap TechnologiesCanada - FinancialE-vestor Communications Inc.Corbet Pala, +1 416-657-2400Investor orUnited States - FinancialGenesis Select CorporationBudd Zuckerman, +1 303-415-0200Investor orUnited Kingdom - AIM, Nominated AdvisorCanaccord Adams LimitedAndrew Chubb, +44 (0) 207 050 6500Clayton Bush, +44 (0) 207 050 6500 Copyright Business Wire 2009. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Weekly automated phone calls can help people with hypertension control their blood pressure more effectively, Canadian researchers have shown. HealthAfter about a year, 46 percent of men and women who got such calls had brought their blood pressure down to optimum levels, compared to about 29 percent of people who didn't receive calls, Dr. Pavel Hamet of the University of Montreal and his colleagues report."A fairly simple intervention supported by technology that consumed very little human resources can be highly effective in primary care settings," they write in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.Just one in four North Americans with hypertension have their blood pressure under control, Hamet and his team note, and part of the reason may have to do with "inadequate management" by doctors and poor communication from health care providers.To get information flowing more effectively, the researchers designed a computer-based management program to call people and ask them for their most recent home-recorded blood pressure measurement. Nurses made 209 calls to study participants after getting E-mail alerts on poor blood pressure control or non-adherence.By the end of the study, people in the phone call group were taking two drugs for high blood pressure, on average, compared to one drug for the control group.Systolic pressure, the top number in a blood pressure reading, showed an average 18.7-point reduction in the study group, compared to 13.8 points for the control group. Diastolic pressure, the lower reading, fell 9.1 and 5.6 points, respectively.The systolic blood pressure reduction, the researchers pointed out, would reduce stroke risk by up to 35 percent, and heart attack risk by up to 25 percent, if it was sustained."It appears the intervention achieved its success by providing regular inter-visit feedback to primary care professionals, decreasing clinical inertia as well as regular contact and feedback to the subjects, empowering them to take charge of their disease," Hamet and his colleagues conclude.SOURCE: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, online May 5, 2009. Health.
NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuters) -U.S cash crude gradesweakened against U.S. crude futures Wednesday as front-monthfutures surged, narrowing time spreads. Light Louisiana Sweet LLS- was exchanged for as little as$1.00 above West Texas Intermediate CLc1, down $1 a barrelfrom Tuesday. Mars sour MRS- fell 55 cents a barrel to dealfor $2.25 below WTI, and another sour crude, Poseidon PSD-,also weakened 55 cents to deal for -$2.25.
On futures markets, June WTI CLM9 surged $2.43 a barrelto $56.27 after market settlement. Crude prices closed at afive-month high in New York, supported by U.S government dataearlier Wednesday which showed a draw on U.S. gasoline stockslast week and a smaller-than-expected rise in crude stocks June Brent LCo1 rose $2.09 a barrel to $56.21, leavingU.S. front-month futures at a slight premium to Brent, a factorthat could further discourage some crude grade imports into theU.S. The June-July WTI spread CL-1=R strengthened to -$1.22 abarrel after market, from -$1.47 on Tuesday Strongerfront-month WTI tends to weaken cash grades U.S.