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Effect of Obesity on the Pharmacokinetics of Drugs in Humans

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Clinicians should design treatment regimens that account for any significant differences in the CL and Vd in the obese, using a size descriptor that corrects for differences in absolute CL between obese and non-obese individuals.
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The prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased in recent years and now includes a significant proportion of the world’s children, adolescents and adults. Obesity is linked to a number of co-morbidities, the most prominent being type 2 diabetes mellitus. While many agents are available to treat these conditions, the current knowledge regarding their disposition in the obese remains limited.

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Physiologically-based pharmacokinetics in drug development and regulatory science.

TL;DR: Specific advances and contemporary challenges with respect to predicting the processes of drug clearance, distribution, and absorption are reviewed, together with the ability to anticipate the quantitative extent of PK-based drug-drug interactions and the impact of age, genetics, disease, and formulation.
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The Surgical Infection Society Revised Guidelines on the Management of Intra-Abdominal Infection.

TL;DR: This guideline summarizes the current recommendations developed by the SIS task force on the treatment of patients who have IAI regarding risk assessment in individual patients; source control; the timing, selection, and duration of antimicrobial therapy; and suggested approaches to patients who fail initial therapy.
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The impact of obesity on the immune response to infection.

TL;DR: More research is necessary to understand the specific aspects of immunity that are impaired and what factors are contributing to reduced immunocompetence in the obese, given that this population may not respond optimally to antimicrobial drugs and vaccination.
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Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health.

TL;DR: The present report has been written to focus attention on the issue and to urge policy-makers to consider taking action before it is too late.
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Clinical calorimetry: tenth paper a formula to estimate the approximate surface area if height and weight be known

TL;DR: Means has found that the range of normal variation from the average is smaller and the apparent depression of metabolism in obesity is much less marked when the linear formula, instead of Meeh's formula, is used to determine surface area.
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