Conflicting recommendations on exercise obscure the main message: Just do it.
In February, my wife was found to have cancer in her breasts, lungs, stomach, liver and bones, so the Conversation With Dr. Nicholas Christakis on Nov. 28 hit home ("A Doctor with a Cause: 'What's My Prognosis?' ") In May, we received conflicting recommendations about chemotherapy.
There is a poor agreement in size classification between BTS and ACCP guidelines, resulting in conflicting recommendations for management of PSP.
Conflicting recommendations are even less surprising if you consider that the average U.S. Medicare patient sees seven specialists, and the prescriptions of each specialist are seldom coordinated with the others.
Conflicting recommendations are provided by various organizations that include the Canadian Pediatric Society [ 28] and the Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management and prevention of obesity in adults and children [ 13].
Conflicting recommendations arising from these studies [ 4, 5, 7, 9] have created uncertainty about the appropriateness of using self-reported stroke in epidemiological research.
International and UK guidelines [ 9, 39, 44] give conflicting recommendations as to whether older people that have fallen or are at high risk of falling should receive multifactorial assessment and individually tailored interventions.
Current guidelines give conflicting recommendations for what is considered an "ideal" level of 25(OH D for the general population and in subpopulations with certain health conditions such as SLE.
These conflicting recommendations result from the lack of answers, based on solid scientific evidence, to the following questions: Should calorie administration be guided by indirect calorimetry to reach a better outcome?
However, in designing strength-training programmes there are contrasting and conflicting recommendations regarding the number of weight-lifting sets required to elicit an increase in muscular strength [ 9, 10].
