long‐term treatmentmood‐stabilizerIn their editorial, Malhi et al1 advocate the more frequent use of lithium in patients with mood disorders which concurs with my appeal voiced two years ago2 . Lithium has been universally accepted as the first choice mood-stabilizer for maintenance treatment of...
St. John's wort should be avoided during pregnancy and lactation until further long-term studies demonstrate a lack of toxicity in the developing fetus and breastfeeding infants. InteractionsSt. John's wort has been reported to interact with numerous drugs. Drugs with a narrow therapeutic window ...
Conclusions and Relevance In this prespecified secondary analysis of the FINEARTS-HF randomized clinical trial, long-term treatment with finerenone was estimated to extend event-free survival by up to 3 years among people with HF with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction. Trial...
There are various types of drug and alcohol addiction therapy to choose from, all of which are offered in both outpatient and inpatient based programs.
This study sought to determine the effects of grafting the internal thoracic artery (ITA) to the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) on long-term (10-year) survival, the cardiac death-free rate, and on the cardiac event-free rate in Japanese patients. Background The use of ITA ...
In the long term the contradictory effects of risk behavior and effective therapy are still poorly understood. Methods Using a previously presented Complex Agent Network model, we describe steady and casual partnerships to predict the HIV spreading among MSM. Behavior-related parameters and values, ...
Long-term risperidone for pervasive developmental disorder: efficacy, tolerability, and discontinuation. Risperidone treatment of autistic disorder: longer-term benefits and blinded discontinuation after 6 months. Am J Psychiatry 2005; 162: 1361–69... A Zuddas,AD Martino,P Muglia,... - 《Journal ...
Long-term improvements in glucose tolerance, fasting plasma glucose, and glycosylated hemoglobin levels were demonstrated in diabetic rats receiving a barley diet for 9 months, and attributed to the high fiber content of the barley diet. Results from rats fed rice and cornstarch diets that differed...
These findings suggest a classification of medications into 3 broad groups: drugs that forestall disease progression and avoid long-term complications (antidiabetics, antihypertensives, and antihyperlipidemics), medications that largely treat symptoms or intermittent conditions (NSAIDS and antihistamines), ...
There are several types of drugs that alter hormonal levels in women; these drugs suppress the hormonal signal sent by thepituitary glandfor the ovaries to release an egg. One such drug is abirth control pill—a combination ofsyntheticestrogen and synthetic progesterone—which inhibitsovulationby si...