Intensive treatment with lipid-lowering agents can lower CVD risk in RA [ 36], possibly as a result of favourable effects in the vasculature.
While studies of football training effects have also been performed in women and children, this article reviews the current evidence linking recreational football training with favourable effects in the prevention and treatment of disease in adult men.
Evidences raised in the last few years support the hypothesis that some degree of decreased thyroid activity might have favourable effects in the oldest-old subjects, whereas either clinical or subclinical thyroid hyperfunction may be detrimental [ 7, 8].
The other view is to look at the trials in detail, explore what types of loco-regional treatment have been given and then evaluate whether we have randomised evidence for favourable effects in the different clinical situations.
10 12 The use of topiramate, a kind of AED, at a daily dose of 50 mg demonstrated a favourable effect in reducing the migraine days.
The trend across the socioeconomic groups appears to suggest a possible greater favourable effect in more deprived demographics, and this might also explain the greater effect of the smoking ban in Liverpool compared with other populations.
If this is really the case, it would be a favourable effect in real life: if a simple short contact with the patient once in a quarter is sufficient to achieve high treatment persistence with rivaroxaban, this would be easy to perform, given that rivaroxaban prescriptions usually contain 98 tablets and, therefore, the patient has to come back for the next prescription every 3 months.
On the other hand, there is some evidence that tamoxifen has a favourable effect in lipid profile [139 141].
Acute kidney injury is a major public health concern, which has been associated with a mortality rate exceeding 50%. 2 3 4 5 6 51 52 Although the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases has been on the rise in Western countries, the proper use of antihypertensive drugs has been shown to have a favourable effect in preventing major cardiovascular events.
Despite their lack of single-agent activity, anti-angiogenic agents have shown favourable effects in boosting the efficacy of standard chemotherapy regimens in different tumour types (Ellis and Hicklin, 2008).
