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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

4 Chronic Kidney Disease The FLOW trial randomized 3,534 patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes and started treating them with s.c. Both the FDA and EMA recommend that doctors monitor patients with diabetic retinopathy who are undergoing semaglutide treatment closely. semaglutide 1.0 mg or placebo in 2019.

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Body Mass Index versus Percent Body Fat as a Predictor of Mortality in Men Aged 20-49 [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: NHANES 1999-2004 linked to the National Death Index which provides population estimates of the US population. After a sensitivity analysis in men aged 20-49, healthy BF% was defined as < 28 and unhealthy BF% as >=28. 15-year mortality risk for the predictors of BMI and BF% was computed. 19.62, P= 0.02).

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Families can sue the employer financially liable for killing their own employees by overworking them (when they die of heart attacks, strokes and they’re found dead like by their computer because they’ve been working for so long). It’s Japanese.

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