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Mindfulness and Acceptance based Behavioral Therapies (MABTs) are among the most promising behavioral approaches for obesity, with two recent large trials showing that they achieve better initial weight loss and/or better weight loss maintenance than does gold standard behavioral…

Pediatric weight management efficacy is impacted by failure to complete treatment protocols and, for those that do complete treatment, a return to unhealthy behaviors. This project tests whether treating pain, a common comorbid condition to pediatric obesity, will enhance treatme…

Single-centre prospective observational study to validate the performance of the Aktiia SA optical blood pressure monitoring (OBPM) device at the wrist against blood pressure measurements obtained by double auscultation at the upper arm during four weeks

This is a controlled, randomized, open-label, multicentric study evaluating the value of coordinated medico-pharmaceutical management compared to standard management in patients with heart failure. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of these optimized activities on t…

Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain resulting in annual cost of roughly $635 billion. Limited treatments are available for this widespread disease. The data supporting these treatments lack generalizability to patients with more serious medical and psychological c…

The purpose of this study is to test a text-delivered counseling program to stop or reduce cannabis use among young adults (ages 18 to 25).

Study rationale High risk patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) require therapy with 131 I under thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) stimulation. There are two methods of TSH stimulation endogenous by thyroid hormone withdrawal (THW) leading to hypothyroidism and exoge…

Patients having a planned open surgery of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms and enrolled in the study will be randomized the day of the surgery in 2 groups: * Arm 1 : Patients with aortic clamping with pre-conditioning * Arm 2 : Patients with aortic clamping without pre-conditio…

The main objective is to evaluate the decrease in crystalline volume of the target tophus using Dual-Energy Computed Tomography (DECT), after 6 months +/- 1 month of urate-lowering therapy with target uricemia. Study hypothesis * The dynamics of tophus resolution with urate-low…

: GREFFE\_ELASTO IRM will evaluate Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) in renal transplant patients with suspected interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy lesions requiring biopsy graft sampling under ultrasound control. The main objective is to search a correlation between rena…

In this study, total knee replacement patients will be determined to be stiff or non-stiff preoperatively. Stiffness designation is determined by preoperative range of motion (if flexion is \< 100 degrees, or extension lag is \> 10 degrees). The stiff and non-stiff groups will bo…

Background: Vector-borne diseases are caused by the bite of an infected mosquito, fly, flea, tick, or other blood-feeder. These diseases cause almost 1 million deaths per year. And they are on the rise, particularly in Southeast Asia in particular. Researchers think that these d…

Pediatric Oncologic Recovery Trial After Surgery (PORTS) trial is an investigator-initiated, multicenter, multidisciplinary prospective case-control study of the implementation of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol at five tertiary-care pediatric hospitals in pedi…

Background Shoulder impingement syndrome is the most common disorder of the shoulder. Study results on the effectiveness of treatment options are inconclusive and limited. Therefore, more evidence is needed for long-term results Objective To investigate the effectiveness of the i…

ASPREE-XT is a post-treatment, longitudinal observational follow-up study of ASPREE participants. Although the ASPREE trial medication was ceased, the study activity was not stopped and ASPREE participants are continuing with scheduled visits and phone calls. An observational fol…

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur frequently and are associated with patient harm. It is important that healthcare facilities take the necessary steps to prevent the spread of resistant bacteria. ESKAPE bacteria (Enterococcus, S. aureus, Klebsiella, Acinetobacter, Pse…

To determine the cognitive and neurophysiological dose-response relationships of anodal tDCS to the left DLPFC as a function of absolute current intensity, individualized E-field intensity, and stimulation duration.

The decision to perform a surgical intervention or not after recovery from repeated uncomplicated episodes of acute diverticulitis remains controversial and the literature shows different conflicting approaches based on low-quality evidence.The goal of this trial is to achieve a …

The primary aim of this study is to examine if Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO) followed by 4 months of usual care followed by 8 months of progressive resistance training (PRT) is superior to 12 months of a PRT intervention in patients with hip dysplasia eligible for PAO in terms o…

CT myocardial perfusion imaging (CTP) represents one of the newly developed CT-based techniques but its cost-effectiveness in the clinical pathway is undefined. The aim of the study is to evaluate the usefulness of combined evaluation of coronary anatomy and myocardial perfusion …