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Obesity

  • Popular Antiobesity Medications Bring New Challenges to Emergency Physicians

    On a busy emergency shift, you have a series of patients with atypical presentations. Your first patient,...
  • Is There a Link Between Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Obesity in Kids?

    Question: In children with idiopathic (or primary) intracranial hypertension (IIH)—previously called pseudotumor cerebri syndrome—are the typical patients...
  • Stroke Hospitalizations on the Rise in Younger U.S. Adults

    A growing number of younger U.S. adults are being hospitalized for stroke, and a new study suggests...

Popular Antiobesity Medications Bring New Challenges to Emergency Physicians

February 11, 2024 - Charles Sanky, MD, MPH; and Jonathan Lin, MD, PHD - 0 Comment

On a busy emergency shift, you have a series of patients with atypical presentations. Your first patient,…

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Is There a Link Between Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Obesity in Kids?

October 15, 2019 - Landon Jones, MD; and Richard M. Cantor, MD, FAAP, FACEP - 0 Comment

Question: In children with idiopathic (or primary) intracranial hypertension (IIH)—previously called pseudotumor cerebri syndrome—are the typical patients…

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Stroke Hospitalizations on the Rise in Younger U.S. Adults

April 26, 2017 - Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - 0 Comment

A growing number of younger U.S. adults are being hospitalized for stroke, and a new study suggests…

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Obese Women May Need Double Dose of LNG-based Emergency Contraception

June 17, 2016 - Megan Brooks (Reuters Health) - 0 Comment

Obese women may need a double dose of levonorgestrel-based emergency contraception (LNG EC), a new study hints….

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Four Techniques for Handling the Omega-Shaped Epiglottis

June 14, 2016 - Richard M. Levitan, MD, FACEP - 1 Comment

Curved blade laryngoscopy, whether with a conventional direct blade or video laryngoscope (with a Macintosh design or…

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Obesity is a Disease?

September 1, 2013 - Robert Solomon, M.D., Medical Editor in Chief - 0 Comment

The question mark at the end of the title is there not so much because I’m questioning…

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The Moral Challenge of Morbidly Obese ED Patients

September 1, 2013 - Gregory L. Larkin, M.D., ArVind Venkat, M.D., and Rostislav Mouravev, M.D., ACEP News contributing writers - 0 Comment

More than a-third of all Americans are obese.1 Morbid obesity, variously defined as either BMI > 40kg/m2…

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Weightism in Health Care

December 1, 2010 - Jennifer Baine, M.D., And Heather Farley, M.D. - 0 Comment

More than 30% of the American population is obese.1 Studies have repeatedly demonstrated a bias against obese…

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Acute Pancreatitis

December 1, 2010 - ACEP Now - 0 Comment

Acute pancreatitis remains an important diagnosis in emergency medicine, accounting for more than 220,000 hospital admissions a…

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