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Now, new research finds that women who use hormone therapy after age 65 are usually fine to do just that — but the dose and timing of the treatment matter. The study, which was published in ...
For older people (over 50 years old) and people with known or suspected ischemic heart disease, levothyroxine therapy should not be initiated at the full replacement dose. [24] Since thyroid hormone increases the heart's oxygen demand by increasing heart rate and contractility, starting at higher doses may cause an acute coronary syndrome or an ...
100–400 mg/day Medroxyprogesterone acetate: Provera: Progestogen: Oral: 2.5–40 mg/day Depo-Provera: Progestogen: IM: 150 mg every 3 mos: Depo-SubQ Provera 104: Progestogen: SC: 104 mg every 3 mos Hydroxyprogesterone caproate: Proluton: Progestogen: IM: 250 mg/wk Dydrogesterone: Duphaston: Progestogen: Oral: 20 mg/day Drospirenone: Slynd ...
Dosage typically includes information on the number of doses, intervals between administrations, and the overall treatment period. [3] For example, a dosage might be described as "200 mg twice daily for two weeks," where 200 mg represents the individual dose, twice daily indicates the frequency, and two weeks specifies the duration of treatment.
For the drugs administered by oral and dermal route, the units of threshold dose are mg/kg body-weight/day (dose of the drug in mg per body weight in kg per day) or ppm (parts per million), while the threshold dose of drugs by inhalation delivery has the unit of mg/L 6h/day (amount of drug in mg in 1L of air, for 6 hours per day).
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The CDC released new COVID-19 vaccination guidelines for people 65 and up and those who are immunocompromised: Get two shots. Experts explain.
In clinical pharmacology, dose refers to the amount of drug administered to a person, and dosage is a fuller description that includes not only the dose (e.g., "500 mg") but also the frequency and duration of the treatment (e.g., "twice a day for one week"). Exposure means the time-dependent concentration (often in the circulatory blood or ...