One of the cleaner ones, a 24-week randomized study of 279 mild-to-moderate Alzheimers patients, tested three doses against placebo and found a result no marketer would have designed: the lowest dose, 10 mL a day, beat placebo on both a cognitive scale and a global clinical rating, while the higher 30 and 60 mL doses improved the global rating but not cognition (Alvarez et al., Eur J Neurol 2006, randomized controlled trial)
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We continue to believe, as we did when this measure was adopted in the Hospital OQR Program measure set, there is evidence that excessive radiation leads to harm, [336] and evidence that radiation doses could be lowered in many patients' situations without deteriorating image diagnostic utility
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It initiates a pulse of growth hormone release without significantly elevating secondary hormones like cortisol, prolactin, or aldosterone