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Nutrition, Heath Equity, and CV Mortality with Dr. Kim Williams

Louisville Lectures

First, Dr. Williams discusses some of the main issue in the United States including being its expensive and broken healthcare system. Dr. Williams encourages the implementation of education around plant-based diets which are associated with lower rates of of systemic hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and diabetes.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. But nonetheless, the methadone clinic system is entirely separate from the rest of the healthcare system. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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