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- Managing obesity in older adults
The goals of treating obesity in older adults are to ease its complications and improve functional status and quality of life, with or without weight loss.
- Failure to thrive in hospitalized older adults: More than a ‘social admission’
Failure to thrive documented as an admitting diagnosis presents an opportunity to identify, articulate, and begin to ameliorate the true underlying causes of the patient’s health deficits.
- What is the optimal time for bone density screening in patients with premature ovarian insufficiency?
Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry should be performed at diagnosis, with the timing of repeat scans predicated on the patient’s clinical risk factors for fracture.
- Nearly a century of using glucocorticoids in patients with active infection
Why would we consider dampening the immune response with glucocorticoids when a patient has an active infection?
- MDA5 dermatomyositis: Unveiling a potentially life-threatening disease
Timely diagnosis and initiation of aggressive immunosuppressive therapy are key to improving the 40% overall mortality rate in patients with MDA5 dermatomyositis.
- Hold ACE inhibitors and ARBs before noncardiac surgery? Emerging evidence suggests a patient-specific approach
Judicious withholding of ACE inhibitors and ARBs in vulnerable populations—and promptly resuming them—may strike the safest balance between renal protection and hemodynamic stability.
- Do patients with severe community-acquired bacterial pneumonia benefit from systemic corticosteroids?
Recent evidence has swung the pendulum back in favor of using corticosteroids in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia.