Publications by authors named "Astrid Floegel-Shetty"
Ethically evaluating prescription of weight loss pharmaceuticals for adolescents classified by body mass index (BMI) as obese requires reconsideration of how medicine's overreliance on BMI as a diagnostic criterion supports a weight normative approach to health. This commentary on a case suggests that weight loss is not a safe, effective, or permanent method of health promotion. The unknown extent of pharmacotherapeutics' risks to adolescents in addition to the controvertible benefits of weight loss ethically preclude their prescription, despite scientific consensus to fight obesity by prescribing weight reduction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Musculoskeletal ultrasound real-time image acquisition and scoring are complex, and many factors affect reliability. Static image reliability does not guarantee real-time scoring. This study aimed to identify factors and solutions to improve real-time scoring reliability for the grey scale and power Doppler evaluation of synovitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the effects of a short web-based educational program on Japanese nurses' self-reported attitudes toward tobacco cessation and their use of interventions to help smokers to quit.
Design: Prospective, single-group design with a pre-educational survey, a short web-based educational program, and a follow-up survey at 3 months.
Methods: Clinical nurses were asked to view two prerecorded webcasts about helping smokers quit.
Background: Joint replacements continue to occur during a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patient's lifetime despite significant advances in available treatment options. The purpose of this study was to examine and quantify synovitis in surgically operated joints by ultrasound (US) in RA patients starting a new therapeutic agent.
Methods: RA subjects were enrolled in either tocilizumab or tofacitinib open-label, investigator-initiated trials and were assessed by ultrasound.