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Childhood obesity and surgery
Obesity is a global pandemic. In 2005 the World Health Organization estimated that more than 400 million adults were obese.1 In developed countries, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia, rates of obesity have more than doubled in the past 25 years.2 Body mass index (BMI), commonly used to classify obesity, is calculated by dividing the patients’ weight in kilograms by the square of their height in metres. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellen … Read this article >>
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Treating joint damage in young people
An osteochondral defect is the breakdown of cartilage and adjoining subchondral bone by traumatic injury or disease. In young patients this can cause severe pain, swelling, and joint instability. The seriousness of the defect is often not understood unt … Read this article >>
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Reduced risk of ulcerative colitis after appendicectomy
In a recent observational study in the BMJ (doi:10.1136/bmj.b716), Frisch and colleagues present new data on the striking inverse association between ulcerative colitis and appendicectomy, which was first describe … Read this article >>
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Unemployment and health
The best guides we have to the possible future effects of mass unemployment are studies of previous epidemics. In men who had been continuously employed for at least five years in the late 1970s, mortality doubled in the five years after redundancy for those aged 40-59 in 1980.1 Adjustme … Read this article >>
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Minimising pain during intravenous cannulation
Cannulation causes moderate or severe pain in a substantial number of children and adults. Some institutions have procedures for minimising the predictable pain of cannulation, especially in children. However, a survey from the United States reported th … Read this article >>
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