This pan-European multicultural study investigates whether after initial weight loss in overweight subjects, a subsequent diet of high or low carbohydrate (glycemic index) or protein diets helped subjects maintain their new weight better.
As the baby boomers become older adults, we will see a rapid rise not only in the older population, but also an increase in older patients. While older adults accounted for 13% of the population in the year 2000, by 2030 they will be at least 20% of the population, or almost 71 million.
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of autoimmune syndromes characterized by subacute or chronic muscle weakness and skeletal muscle inflammation. Of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, the best recognized subsets are polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis (IBM), and the newly described autoimmune necrotizing myopathy.
Behavioral therapy works as well as drug treatment for male overactive bladder.
