09 May 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
osteoarthritis of the hips, lower back or knees, degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine, obesity ...
help to reduce the pain and swelling. Patients who are overweight or obese will benefit from losing ...
09 May 2012
| by Dr Lizzie Croton
and there was no additional risk conferred from adolescence once adult BMI had been accounted for.
Therapy for obese ...
obese patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes (average HbA1c 9.2%).
Study participants were ...
02 May 2012
| by Dr Keith Barnard
that with increasing obesity in children, youngsters who are grossly overweight may exhibit difficulty walking. However, it would be unwise to attribute gait problems to obesity without making sure there is no other pathology ...
02 May 2012
| by Susana Tettey and Dr Anshoo Sahota
, hyperlipidaemia, coronary artery disease, obesity and metabolic syndrome.
The incidence and prevalence ...
exacerbate psoriasis; these include alcohol, smoking, certain drugs, skin injury, obesity, psychological ...
and was obese with a BMI of 30kg/m 2 . There was no family history of psoriasis.
Widespread plaque psoriasis ...
18 Apr 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
in mobility. This study randomly assigned more than 5,000 overweight or obese adults between the ages of 45 ...
11 Apr 2012
| by Dr Gwen Lewis
-SWEPOP (Swedish pregnancy, obesity and pelvic floor study) was conducted in 2008 and looked at women who gave ...
risk of incontinence more than doubled in obese women compared with women with a normal BMI after ...
28 Mar 2012
| by Dr Krystallenia Alexandraki and Professor Ashley Grossman
to confirm the diagnosis in all cases.
Signs that most reliably distinguish CS from obesity and other ...
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Left ventricular hypertrophy.
Ischaemic heart disease.
Prodiabetes.
Diabetes.
Obesity ...
21 Mar 2012
| by Dr Louise Newson
of LUTS in men who are obese. 2
2. Symptoms
Symptoms can relate to voiding, storage or post ...
, and obesity. Curr Urol Rep 2009; 10(4): 247-53.
3. NICE. The management of lower urinary tract symptoms ...
21 Mar 2012
| by Dr Klaus Witte
hypertension.
Hypertension risk factors Smoking, obesity and metabolic syndrome are causally associated ...
to exclude radiofemoral delay (aortic coarctation), central obesity and abdominal striae (Cushing's syndrome ...
smoking and obesity.
Yusuf S, Teo K, Pogue J et al. Telmisartan, ramipril, or both in patients ...
07 Mar 2012
| by Dr Suzanne Hunter
A review of research impacting primary care, covering drug reactions, obesity, hearing loss...2012; 62: e13-e21 This study compared GPs' ability to counsel obese patients with their ability ...
smoking and have been successful as such, but not so at dealing with diet and obesity.
GPs took ...
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Consider how you could improve your consultation skills when consulting with obese and overweight patients ...