Karate Training Improves Metabolic Health in Overweight and Obese Adolescents: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Purpose: This study evaluated the effects of 12 weeks of karate training on cardiometabolic parameters, oxidative stress, and inflammation in adolescents with overweight and obesity.

Method: Seventy adolescents were randomized into 2 groups: control received nutritional and psychological interventions once a week for 12 weeks, and treatment received nutritional and psychological interventions once a week, plus 3 karate sessions per week, for 12 weeks. The main outcome measure was improvement in cardiometabolic parameters, oxidative stress, and inflammation.

[Profile of malignant hyperthermia susceptibility reports confirmed with muscular contracture test in Brazil].

Background And Objectives: Malignant hyperthermia is an autosomal dominant hypermetabolic pharmacogenetic syndrome, with a mortality rate of 10%–20%, which is triggered by the use of halogenated inhaled anesthetics or muscle relaxant succinylcholine. The gold standard for suspected susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia is the in vitro muscle contracture test in response to halothane and caffeine. The determination of susceptibility in suspected families allows the planning of safe anesthesia without triggering agents for patients with known susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia by positive in vitro muscle contracture test.

Can the individual calibration be modified when laser fluorescence method is used for caries detection?

Background: Individual calibration (IC) for caries detection methods based on fluorescence is time-consuming, especially for paediatric dentists, if the calibration has to be performed tooth-by-tooth. However, it is not clear how this calibration actually interfere in laser fluorescence (LF) readings.

Aim: This in vivo study was to verify the influence of different modes of IC on laser fluorescence (LF) readings.