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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 ...
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 ...
25–50 mg/day Enzalutamide: Xtandi: Antiandrogen: Oral: 160 mg/day GnRH analogue: Various: GnRH modulator: Various: Variable Elagolix: Orilissa: GnRH antagonist: Oral: 150 mg/day or 200 mg twice daily Finasteride: Propecia: 5αR inhibitor: Oral: 1–5 mg/day Dutasteride: Avodart: 5αR inhibitor: Oral: 0.25–0.5 mg/day Progesterone: Prometrium ...
Suppose it has a long lifetime in the body, and only ten percent of it is cleared from the blood each day by the liver and kidneys. Suppose also that the drug works best when the total amount in the body is exactly one gram. So, the maintenance dose of foosporin is 100 milligrams (100 mg) per day—just enough to offset the amount cleared.
The CDC released new COVID-19 vaccination guidelines for people 65 and up and those who are immunocompromised: Get two shots. Experts explain.
the dose at which toxicity occurs in 50% of cases. LD Lethal Dose the dose at which death occurs in 50% of cases. [6]: 73 [7] [8] TI Therapeutic Index a quantitative measurement of the relative safety of a drug by comparison of the amount of a therapeutic agent that causes toxicity to the amount that causes the therapeutic effect [1]
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Threshold dose is the minimum dose of drug that triggers minimal detectable biological effect in an animal. [1] At extremely low doses, biological responses are absent for some of the drugs. The increase in dose above threshold dose induces an increase in the percentage of biological responses. [2]