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Open AccessPatients with Obesity Should be Recognised as a Special Patient Population During Drug Development of Antibacterial and Antifungal Agents; A Call to Action
Individuals with obesity are at increased risk of develo** infectious diseases. Timely administration of an effective dose of an antimicrobial agent is paramount to safeguard optimal therapy. For this purpos...
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Efficacy of Metformin Treatment with Respect to Weight Reduction in Children and Adults with Obesity: A Systematic Review
Obesity and its related complications are increasing health issues. Since generally only minor weight loss is obtained with lifestyle intervention, additional pharmacological therapies such as metformin are of...
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Open AccessLong-term metformin treatment in adolescents with obesity and insulin resistance, results of an open label extension study
Off-label metformin is nowadays frequently used for the treatment of obesity in adolescents. However, studies on long-term metformin treatment in adolescents with obesity are scarce. Therefore, an 18 month ope...
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Open AccessLong-term treatment with metformin in obese, insulin-resistant adolescents: results of a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial
As adolescents with obesity and insulin resistance may be refractory to lifestyle intervention therapy alone, additional off-label metformin therapy is often used. In this study, the long-term efficacy and saf...
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Global trends in the incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents: a systematic review and evaluation of methodological approaches
This study aimed to systematically review what has been reported on the incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents, to scrutinise the methodological issues observed in the included...
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298 Cd3+Cd4+-Lymphocytes as Biomarker Predicting the Outcome of Pediatric Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Recipients
Introduction: Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) may be complicated by severe infectious complications, graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) and relapse/graft failures depending on the lymphocyte immu...