Eating concerns in youth with functional abdominal pain disorders.

Objectives: Adolescents with functional abdominal pain (FAP) often experience pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms in the context of eating, which may place them at risk for eating disorders. This study compared disordered eating and its sequalae in adolescents with FAP to those with chronic headache.

Methods: Participants in this retrospective chart review study were 270 adolescents and young adults (mean age 15.

CD34 cell therapy significantly reduces adverse cardiac events, health care expenditures, and mortality in patients with refractory angina.

Patients with refractory angina who are suboptimal candidates for further revascularization have improved exercise time, decreased angina frequency, and reduced major adverse cardiac events with intramyocardial delivery of CD34 cells. However, the effect of CD34 cell therapy on health care expenditures before and after treatment is unknown. We determined the effect of CD34 cell therapy on cardiac-related hospital visits and costs during the 12 months following stem cell injection compared with the 12 months prior to injection.