1. From the Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex (C.M.B.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden (A.G.O.); Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ (T.J.C., M.F.M.); and the Medical Clinic, Aker Hospital (T.R.P.), and Department of Medicine, Rikshospitalet (J.K.), Oslo, Norway.