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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

BMJ

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001139 Prediabetes, a health condition with blood sugar levels higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes, increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Of those, 76.8%

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A New Outlook: How Carrier Screening Shaped One Family’s Future

Myriad Genetics

When Ashley Pantier and her husband decided to start a family, they were young, healthy, and filled with a sense of joyful optimism. In fact, most babies with genetic conditions are born to parents with no known family history of that disease. Ashley’s journey to a diagnosis for Christopher probably felt like forever to their family.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

1, 2013, weren’t eligible for vaccination, but those even slightly younger were eligible. A substantial reduction in dementia diagnoses in the vaccine-eligible group, with a much stronger protective effect in women, therefore constitutes “more powerful and convincing evidence,” he said. Research Is Proving Them Right.

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Sometimes We Just Can’t Be Ideal

CDOCS

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The Spear Facially Generated Treatment Planning workshop I took early in my career had a massive impact on the amount of comprehensive dentistry I can now see and diagnose and present to my patients. I present to you Greg.</span></p>

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. 2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self.