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Multidisciplinary Approach Beneficial for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Patients in the multidisciplinary-care group were more likely to experience a 50% or higher reduction in all Gastrointestinal Symptom Severity Index symptom clusters than the patients who were in the standard-care group.
National Lipid Association Gives Statement on Dyslipidemia Genetic Testing
July 15th 2020The practice of genetic testing has been useful in clinically addressing found cases of familial hypercholesterolemia, among other conditions, but no clinical practice guidelines currently exist for testing patients with suspected hereditary dyslipidemia.
Continual Intraocular Pressure Monitoring Needed for Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients
Intraclass correlation coefficients for short-term variability among the 7 periods during the day ranged from 0.52 in the morning period to 0.66 in the early period and long-term ICCs ranged from 0.29 at night to 0.51 during the late period.
Investigators Test Combination Therapies for First-Episode Psychosis in Adolescents
Four out of 18 patients in antipsychotic monotherapy, 5 out of 16 individuals receiving psychological intervention, and 5 out of 17 receiving combined therapy achieved a good clinical response at 6 months.