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"Ultra low tar" brands claiming to deliver just 0.1 milligram (mg) of nicotine, actually delivered closer to 1 mg.
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Men should take 1, 000 mg of elemental calcium from age 19 to age 70 and increase to 1, 200 mg at age 71.
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Researchers took a group of 23 children allergic to peanuts and gave them small amounts of peanuts to eat daily, usually starting with 1 mg, said Clark.
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At Week 24, 2.5% of lorcaserin 10 mg BID patients and 1.9% of placebo patients had new valvulopathy (based on FDA criteria), and at Week 52, 2.9% of lorcaserin 10 mg BID patients and 0.5% of placebo patients had new valvulopathy.
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In one study, the average weight loss for a group taking a higher dose (32 mg) of naltrexone plus bupropion for about a year was 6.1% while for a lower dose (16 mg) it was 5%. (People taking a placebo had an average weight loss of 1.3%.) However, only half the participants who started the trial actually finished it.
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Women age 19 to 50 should take 1, 000 mg of elemental calcium.
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Women should increase to 1, 200 mg starting at age 51.
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The recent Institute of Medicine study recommends everyone age 1 to 70 take 600 international units (IU) per day of vitamin D and those over 71 take 800 IU. The institute recommends adolescents age 9 to 18 receive 1, 300 mg per day of elemental calcium.
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All three studies had similar estimates of the placebo-adjusted effect of lorcaserin 10 mg bid at 52 weeks (TABLE 1).
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After all, she noted, only 1% of demand for Pfizer's Lipitor is at the 80-mg level, and the 40-mg dose of Crestor appears to be at least as powerful as the 80-mg dose of Lipitor.
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Nevertheless, while the primary endpoint in the PRE-SURGE 2 trial does not appear to have any dose response, as you noted, the endpoints in PRE-SURGE 1 and the secondary endpoints in PRE-SURGE 2 appear to trend slightly better with the 160 mg dose.
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