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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.

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

Myriad Genetics

We went through the pediatrician, the physical therapist, and none of those people brought up carrier screening. Once Christopher’s diagnosis was confirmed, the Pantiers swung into action with medical interventions as well as physical therapy. 1 , 1–15 (2013). We started asking questions because he still wasn’t walking.

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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. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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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. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Eric 04:53 How is it public? Can you tell me about that?

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

PEMBlog

It’s particularly difficult to diagnose cervical spine injuries in kids under three because they can’t give you an accurate history and cooperate with the exam. Leonard JR, Jaffe DM, Kuppermann N, Olsen CS, Leonard JC; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Cervical Spine Study Group. Pediatrics.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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