With so many Americans at cardiometabolic risk, it is important that primary care providers identify lifestyle-driven risk factors and prescribe appropriate therapy, primarily lifestyle-based therapy. ...
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Obesity is particularly troublesome for young children because of both its health risks and the tendency of early weight issues to persist as the child ages.
Recent nutritional surveys in the United States and Canada have shown that many North Americans are not consuming the recommended levels of many micronutrients from dietary intake alone.
Evelyn Erickson, MD; Aurea Thomas, MD; and Magda Mendez, MD
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx, New York
Evelyn Erickson, MD; Aurea Thomas, MD...
A boy with history of atopic dermatitis was brought to the emergency department with difficulty breathing and 4 episodes of nonmucous, non bloody vomiting.