Pediatrics
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The chicken or the egg: Obesity or psoriasis?
Major finding: Among 29 children, 93% met criteria for excess adiposity prior to developing psoriasis, and 78% of these were obese before their...
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No short-term serious side effects from hormones for transsexuals
Major finding: Hormonal therapy for transgender patients did not adversely affect bone density in adolescents and caused no serious unwanted side...
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Vibration platform strengthened bones, improved walking in moderate cerebral palsy
Major finding: After 5 months of vibration platform therapy, children with moderate cerebral palsy could walk about 30 m more in 6 minutes.Data...
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Control of congenital adrenal hyperplasia improves with more frequent steroid dosing
Major finding: Administering daily hydrocortisone in four divided doses, instead of increasing the prescription and sticking with three divided...
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Case builds for counting fat, protein alongside carbs in T1DM
Major finding: A high-fat/high-protein meal resulted in significantly higher glucose excursions from 180 to 300 minutes, compared with all the...
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Children of diabetic mothers at greater risk of overweight as young adults
Major finding: Of 17-year-old males born to diabetic mothers, 27% had a BMI at or above the 85th percentile nationally, compared with 16% of...
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Ketoacidosis rates remain troubling in juvenile type 1 diabetes
Major finding: DKA prevalence for type 1 diabetes remained high at 29.8%, 28.8%, and 28.2% between 2002 and 2003, 2004 and 2005, and 2008 and 2009...
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Tight glycemic control normalized thyroid function after pediatric heart surgery
Major finding: Seven days after heart surgery, children on tight glycemic control had significantly higher median T4 levels than did children on...
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Bone growth affected by ketogenic diet in children with epilepsy
Major finding: Participants on the ketogenic diet demonstrated a mean bone mineral density lumbar Z-score decrease of 0.1756 units/year. Bone loss...
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Early, late solid food exposures up diabetes risk
Major finding: Early fruit exposure and late rice/oat exposure are linked with increased risks for T1DM development (hazard ratios, 2.23 and 2.88...
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Empagliflozin improves cardiovascular risk factors in T2DM
Major Finding: One-third of type 2 diabetes patients with uncontrolled hypertension at baseline lowered their blood pressure to below 130/80 mm Hg...