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Hyperbaric treatment schedules or hyperbaric treatment tables, are planned sequences of events in chronological order for hyperbaric pressure exposures specifying the pressure profile over time and the breathing gas to be used during specified periods, for medical treatment. Hyperbaric therapy is based on exposure to pressures greater than ...
Its use produces modest weight loss, with an average of 2.9 kg (6.4 lb) at 1 to 4 years, but there is little information on how these medications affect longer-term complications of obesity. [12] [13] [needs update] Its use is associated with high rates of gastrointestinal side effects. [13]
The term bariatrics was coined around 1965, [2] from the Greek root bar- ("weight" as in barometer), suffix-iatr ("treatment," as in pediatrics), and suffix-ic ("pertaining to"). The field encompasses dieting, exercise and behavioral therapy approaches to weight loss, as well as pharmacotherapy and surgery. The term is also used in the medical ...
Hyperbaric medicine includes hyperbaric oxygen treatment, which is the medical use of oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure to increase the availability of oxygen in the body; [8] and therapeutic recompression, which involves increasing the ambient pressure on a person, usually a diver, to treat decompression sickness or an air embolism by reducing the volume and more rapidly eliminating ...
Obesity medicine is a field of medicine dedicated to the comprehensive treatment of patients with obesity.Obesity medicine takes into account the multi-factorial etiology of obesity in which behavior, development, environment, epigenetic, genetic, nutrition, physiology, and psychosocial contributors all play a role. [1]
[1] [2] [4] [5] Recombinant human parathyroid hormone is used in the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women at high risk of osteoporotic fractures. [3] A significant reduction in the incidence of vertebral fractures has been demonstrated. [3] It is used in combination with calcium and vitamin D supplements. [1] [4]
Teriparatide is indicated for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis; [13] for the increase of bone mass in men with primary or hypogonadal osteoporosis; [13] and treatment of men and women with osteoporosis associated with sustained systemic glucocorticoid therapy.
Jejunoileal bypass (JIB) was a surgical weight-loss procedure performed for the relief of morbid obesity from the 1950s through the 1970s in which all but 30 cm (12 in) to 45 cm (18 in) of the small bowel were detached and set to the side.