Short Term Caloric Restriction and Biofeedback Enhance Psychological Wellbeing and Reduce Overweight in Healthy Women.

Obesity is highly prevalent, causing substantial cardiovascular and mental health morbidity. Women show increased risk for mental health disorders, that is multiplied in obesity and related to cellular and psychological stress that can be targeted by non-pharmacological interventions. A total of 43 women underwent two weeks of caloric restriction, half of which also received 7 h of individualized clinical psychological intervention including psychoeducation, mindfulness, and heart-rate-variability biofeedback.

Biological and Psychological Stress Correlates Are Linked to Glucose Metabolism, Obesity, and Gender Roles in Women.

Objectives: Psychological stress affects central as well as peripheral metabolism and hormone trafficking via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Stress thereby plays a decisive role in the etiology and progression of overweight and obesity, leading to several chronic diseases, such as diabetes, and mental health disorders. The interplay of biological and psychometric correlates of stress, anthropometric, immunological, and metabolic parameters and psychosocial factors such as gender roles, however, remains poorly understood.

Displaced fractures of the proximal humerus in children require open/closed reduction and internal fixation.

Fractures of the proximal humerus in children are rare and constitute only 3% of all epiphyseal injuries. From 1992 to 2002 sixteen patients aged 4 - 15 years with a displaced fracture of the proximal humerus were treated at our level I trauma unit. The mean follow-up of the patients was 23.

Premature labor in a women with perforating appendicitis at 36 weeks of gestation. A case report.

Background: Acute appendicitis during pregnancy is a serious complication because of the difficult diagnosis and increased perinatal morbidity and mortality.

Case: A 29-year-old woman underwent cesarean section and an appendectomy because of clinical symptoms of an acute abdomen and fetal distress.

Conclusion: Acute appendicitis in pregnancy is rare but requires special attention to maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality.