More Attention Should Be Paid to Monitoring of Abdominal Obesity among Children and Adolescents

Trends in abdominal obesity among U.S. children and adolescents.

OBJECTIVES Previous studies showed that prevalence of abdominal obesity among US children and adolescents increased significantly between 1988-1994 and 2003-2004. However, little is known about recent time trends in abdominal obesity since 2003-2004.This study was to provide recent updated national estimates of childhood abdominal obesity and examine the trends in childhood abdominal obesity fr...

More attention must be paid: the neurobiology of attentional effort.

Increases in attentional effort are defined as the motivated activation of attentional systems in response to detrimental challenges on attentional performance, such as the presentation of distractors, prolonged time-on-task, changing target stimulus characteristics and stimulus presentation parameters, circadian phase shifts, stress or sickness. Increases in attentional effort are motivated by...

More attention should be paid to the treatment of male infertility with drugs—testosterone: to use it or not?

guidelines are not ‘upgraded’ following panel consensus. This statement further confused me. After discussing and analyzing this information with some andrological experts in China and abroad, I decided to express my perspectives on this problem. The estrogen receptor modulator, tamoxifen, when combined with testosterone undecanoate (TU), was shown to be an effective treatment choice for male i...

Small bowel feeding versus gastric feeding in critically ill adults: more attention should be paid to specific populations

As all of us are well aware, there are a lot of unanswered questions in the nutrition support of patients, especially in the care of critically ill adults. Despite extensive studies, however, the optimal route (small bowel feeding versus gastric feeding) of enteral nutrition remains debated. In recent issues of Critical Care, three meta-analyses focus on the topic [1-3]. Deane and colleagues [1...

Sports and Antitrust: Should College Students Be Paid to Play