EDITORIAL In This Issue: Risk and Care Management

The articles in this issue develop 2 themes: risk assessment and care management.The risks identifi ed in these studies relate to anger and the progression of prehypertension to hypertension and coronary heart disease,1 development of diabetes among young adults,2 suicide risk assess-ment among standardized patients portraying either major depression or adjustment disorder,3 and risk for domestic violence.4 Two systematic reviews examine both risk and clinical management. One identifi es racial differences in the effi cacy of antihypertensive therapy.5 The other assesses differences in international guidelines for man-agement of acute sore throat.6 Several other studies inform our clinical manage-ment of patients. For example, Bayliss and colleagues7 discover barriers to self-management of chronic dis