Non-nutritive sweetened beverages versus water after a 52-week weight management programme: a randomised controlled trial.

Background/objective: Sugar-sweetened beverages are a substantial source of dietary sugar that can contribute to weight gain and the risk of type 2 diabetes. Dietary guidelines recommend non-nutritive sweetened (NNS) beverages to reduce sugar consumption, however, there is a need for long-term randomised controlled trials on their use. We aimed to compare the effects of NNS beverages and water on body weight during weight loss and maintenance in a behavioural weight management programme.

Effects of non-nutritive sweetened beverages versus water after a 12-week weight-loss program: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare non-nutritive sweetened (NNS) beverages versus water for weight loss after a 12-week behavioral weight-management program.

Methods: This is an ongoing, 2-year, parallel-group, open-label, controlled equivalence trial; week-12 data are reported. Adults with BMI of 27 to 35 kg/m who regularly drank cold beverages were randomized 1:1 to intention-to-treat water or NNS beverages while undergoing a weekly 12-week group behavioral weight-management program.

Patterns of cerebral glucose metabolism using 18FDG and positron tomography in the neurologic investigation of the full term newborn infant.

18F fluorodeoxyglucose (18FDG) and positron tomography (PT) were used in 20 full term babies with seizures or hypotonia to describe regional cerebral glucose metabolism. Among babies with seizures, birth asphyxia was the most common cause. PT was performed at age 6-17 days.

Neonatal manifestations of Schwartz-Jampel syndrome.

Schwartz-Jampel syndrome generally presents in childhood with short stature, limited joint mobility, masklike facies with blepharophimosis, myotonia, and often muscle hypertrophy. Few cases with neonatal manifestations have been described. A newborn with severe manifestations is reported and the literature is reviewed.

The ultrasonographic diagnosis of bacterial ventriculitis in infancy: a technical note.

High resolution real-time ultrasound equipment used for clinical cerebral ultrasonography in neonates and infants can provide a measure of blood cell counts in varying dilutions. In the study described, the threshold of visualization of leukocytes was in the range of 500 cells/mm3 and for erythrocytes 10,000 cells/mm3. The size, configuration, and nucleus of the leukocyte, compared with the erythrocyte, may explain this difference.

The ultrasonographic diagnosis of bacterial meningitis and ventriculitis in infancy: six case reports.

Five infants with meningitis and ventriculitis, and a sixth patient with meningitis only are reported. In one hydrocephalic infant, infection of the central nervous system (CNS) was not suspected until cerebral ultrasonography revealed features of ventriculitis. It appears that in non-communicating hydrocephalus managed with a ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt, infection may involve predominantly the "sequestered ventricles" rather than the spinal meninges.