Closely Monitoring Xeroderma Pigmentosum Key to Disease Management
Posted by: admin on: December 29, 2011
Xeroderma pigmentosum patients are highly prone to develop skin cancers therefore it is important to diagnose xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) as early as possible for the timely intervention, because consequences of delayed or missed diagnosis are devastating.
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Committee Led by TC’s Garber Issues New Exercise Guidelines
Posted by: admin on: December 29, 2011
It is important for people understand that even a small amount of exercise goes a long way to improve health. The new guidelines suggested to minimize inactivity. Strength training and flexibility are as important as aerobic exercise.
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Central obesity, more than BMI, predicts mortality risk in CAD
Posted by: admin on: December 28, 2011
Central obesity is more of a risk factor for mortality in a case of coronary artery disease than BMI. Hence BMI is may not the appropriate tool to determine the prognosis; one should also take in account waist hip ratio & body fat percentage.
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Failure to Thrive or Dietary (calorie) Deficit
Posted by: admin on: December 28, 2011
We don’t see as much Failure to Thrive nowadays as a decade earlier. The ones that present as underweight are put through a battery of tests before labeling them as ?calorie deficit. Not many of us take detailed dietary history to adjudge caloric intake.
We should think simple things first before subjecting patients to battery of investigations. History taking and its components like food habits are important points. Read this study highlighting the problems of so called failure to thrive.
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