This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Retracted Article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related article  • Similar articles in this journal  Topic Collections  • Statistics and Research Methods  • Hypertension  • Journalology/ Peer Review/ Authorship  • Men's Health  • Cardiovascular Disease/ Myocardial Infarction  • Alert me on articles by topic

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

See Retracted Article and Related Letter.

In this issue of ARCHIVES, we publish a letter from Rice et al¹ concerning the article by Panagiotakos and colleagues titled "The Relation Between Pulse Pressure and Cardiovascular Mortality in 12 763 Middle-aged Men From Various Parts of the World: A 25-Year Follow-up of the Seven Countries Study" (Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:2142-2147).

The letter was received shortly after publication of the article by Panagiotakos et al, and it reports errors in the statistical calculations and interpretation of the analyses presented in that article. Following additional thorough review of the article by the editors, along with considerable consultation with the authors, all authors agreed that the contents of the letter were correct and that the findings of the article were invalid as originally presented. The editors and the authors have agreed to retract the article.

The editors regret the publication of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Philip Greenland, MD, Editor

RELATED ARTICLE

Analytic Errors Undermine Conclusions of Cardiovascular Study
Kenneth Rice, Richard Kronmal, and Thomas Lumley
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(16):1787.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT