Wegovy is also approved for chronic weight management in pediatric patients aged 12 years and older. In studies, a 16.1% decrease in body mass index (BMI) in children 12 years of age and older was demonstrated. Approval for Wegovy in children was supported by the 68-week Phase 3a STEP ...
Higher perceived social and emotional support was a protective factor of QoL in caregivers. Conclusion Patients of pediatric age and their caregivers, younger caregivers, and female patients and caregivers seem to be especially vulnerable to QoL impairments. The social and emotional dimensions were the...
WHAT SHOULD I DO WHEN I SUSPECT AN ELDERLY OR PEDIATRIC PATIENT IS BEING ABUSED?doi:10.14219/jada.archive.2004.0379Kenneth D. Jones Jr.The Journal of the American Dental Association
Treatment of childhood leukemia depends on the type of leukemia and a child’s age and is often adjusted based on response to therapy. Chemotherapy is used for all types of childhood leukemia. Other treatment that may also be used for childhood leukemia includes radiation therapy (high-energy x...
Data quality: The adage “garbage in, garbage out” applies to machine learning—the quality of data is critical, during both the training phase and in production. High-quality data can lead to more accurate results delivered in a timely, efficient manner; low-quality data can create inaccurac...
a Patient with non-csPCa; b patient with csPCa; c patient with ECE; d patient with LNI. The colorbar indicates the gray intensity of corresponding voxel in each sub-figure. The hot and cold colors indicate the strong and weak gray intensity, respectively. The red arrow points to the ...
Data quality: The adage “garbage in, garbage out” applies to machine learning—the quality of data is critical, during both the training phase and in production. High-quality data can lead to more accurate results delivered in a timely, efficient manner; low-quality data can create inaccurac...
Of particular interest is a recent case report of an adult who received a diagnosis of LO-CCHS at 35 y of age and carried an alanine PHOX2B mutation and had two daughters with LO-CHS and the same PHOX2B mutation as their father (39). The function of polyalanine stretches is largely ...
It has become no longer acceptable to practice surgery based on the age-old philosophy of “the way I learned it.” Implementation of EBM leads to guidelines and protocols that minimize the recognized marked variations in care with the accompanying marked variations in patient outcome. Through the...
Recognising a potential visual-field (VF) defect in paediatric patients might be challenging, especially in children before the age of 5 years and those with developmental delay or intellectual disability. Visual electrophysiological testing is an object