BACKGROUND
A once-weekly, 2.4-mg dose of subcutaneous semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, is used to treat obesity in adults, but assessment of the drug in adolescents has been lacking.
METHODS
In this double-blind, parallel-group, randomized, placebo-...
Importance: Menopause is defined as the cessation of a person's menstrual cycle. It is defined retrospectively, 12 months after the final menstrual period. Perimenopause, or the menopausal transition, is the few-year time period preceding a person's final menstrual period and is characterized by...
These guidelines are designed to assist the pediatrician in caring for the child in whom a diagnosis of Down syndrome has been confirmed by chromosome analysis. Although a pediatrician's initial contact with the child is usually during infancy, occasionally the pregnant woman who has been given...
Objectives: This meta-analysis investigated the use of fluvoxamine for the treatment of nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Ovid medline, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane Library databases, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched for studies published before June...
Objectives: Identify and abstract data from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to update the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository (PTSD-Repository) with data on PTSD and mental health, including suicide-related outcomes and substance use.
...BACKGROUND
Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD) is a highly prevalent and disabling condition; nevertheless, standard treatments often remain unsatisfactory. Sacral neuromodulation (SNM) is a well-established therapy for non-NLUTD, but there is a lack of randomized controlled...
PRACTICE CHANGER
CONSIDER A “NO-BIOPSY” APPROACH BY EVALUATING SERUM IMMUNOGLOBULIN (IG) A ANTI-TISSUE TRANSGLUTAMINASE (TTG-IGA) ANTIBODY TITERS IN ADULT PATIENTS WHO PRESENT WITH SYMPTOMS CONCERNING FOR CELIAC DISEASE (CD). AN INCREASE OF ≥ 10 TIMES THE UPPER LIMIT OF NORMAL (ULN) FOR...
Background: Studies have suggested that evening dosing with antihypertensive therapy might have better outcomes than morning dosing. The Treatment in Morning versus Evening (TIME) study aimed to investigate whether evening dosing of usual antihypertensive medication improves major cardiovascular...
Objective
To investigate why certain at-risk individuals develop celiac disease, we examined the association of proton pump inhibitors (PPI), histamine-2 receptor antagonist (H2RA), and antibiotic prescriptions in the first six months of life with an early childhood diagnosis of celiac...
Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of prune juice on chronic constipation.
Methods: We conducted a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in Japanese subjects with chronic constipation.
Results: Prune intake significantly decreased...
