Pediatrics
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Androgens helped even young boys with Klinefelter's
Major finding: Klinefelter’s patients had a moderate improvement in various social adjustment scores after 2 years of low-dose androgen therapy....
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Allergy risk in obese children may be related to vitamin D deficiency
Major finding: Vitamin D deficiency is a dependent cofactor for allergic biochemical profiles in obese adolescents. Data Source: An observational...
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Risk score can predict type 1 diabetes
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Islet autoantibody seroconversion precedes type 1 diabetes
Major finding: The risk of developing diabetes by the age of 15 years was 79% in children who carried all three islet autoantibodies, 62% in those...
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Estrogen replacement eases weight-gain anxiety in girls with anorexia
Major finding: After 18 months of estrogen replacement therapy, 20 anorexic teenage girls, compared with 17 on placebo, had a significant decrease...
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Exhaled VOC concentrations provide childhood obesity clues
Major finding: Concentrations of four VOCs were significantly higher in the overweight/obese vs. nonobese children after adjustment for age,...
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Golimumab indication expanded to include ulcerative colitis
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LARC use leads to dramatic drop in teen pregnancies
Major finding: The annual pregnancy rate among adolescents who chose a LARC was 29.9/1,000, compared with the 2008 U.S. teen pregnancy rate of 67....
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High blood pressure begins early in overweight children
Major finding: Children who went from normal weight to overweight or obese over 2.5 years were 57% more likely to develop prehypertension and 87%...
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In children with hypertension, weight plus race don't add up equally
Major finding: Race and weight interact to drive up hypertension rates in white and Hispanic children to nearly twice those seen in black and...
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LARCs appear safe in adolescents with CVD
Major finding: In a study of LARC use among adolescents with congenital cardiac anomalies or other cardiovascular disease, no cases of...