OBJECTIVE To identify clinical and echocardiographic indicators of the necessity for early surgical closure of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm neonates. METHODS The prospective study was conducted at the Neonatal Unit of Hospital Municipal Odilon Behrens between 2006 and 2010. The study population comprised 115 preterm neonates diagnosed with patent ductus arteriosus in the first week aft...

BACKGROUND Bone loss often accompanies weight loss induced by caloric restriction (CR), but whether bone loss accompanies similar weight loss induced by exercise (EX) is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that EX-induced weight loss is associated with less bone loss compared with CR-induced weight loss. METHODS Forty-eight adults (30 women; 18 men; mean +/- SD age, 57 +/- 3 years; and mean +/-...

BACKGROUND Worksite nutrition and physical activity interventions are important to help overweight and obese employees lose weight, but costs and insufficient sustained motivation prevent the majority of these programs from succeeding. Tailored text messaging in aiding weight management has been effective in several studies, but no studies have evaluated the effect of a tailored text message se...

A 57-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease complains of increasing shortness of breath on exertion over the preceding 3 months. He experiences dyspnea after walking approximately 100 m, a mild productive cough, and wheezing, and he has recently gained 5 kg (11 pounds) in body weight. Physical examination demonstrates abdominal obesity, mild expiratory wheezing with a few inspi...

Weight gain achieved during pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) treatment is associated with the likelihood of bacteriological treatment success. It is recognised that weight and body mass index (BMI) characteristics differ between ethnic groups in health and illness states. However there has been no prior investigation of how ethnic differences in BMI might influence tuberculosis treatment outcome. O...