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Better Care Models Needed for Young Adults With Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Obesity drugs were not utilized often in young adults and adolescents despite high complication rates, prompting researchers to call for chronic, holistic care. Obesity in children and young adults is associated with the early development of several obesity-related complications,” wrote Theresa Hunter Gibble, PhD , and colleagues.

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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

mg or placebo in 2019. 15 Also, a systematic review (2019) of 50,452 diabetes patients did not show a statistically significant increase of the overall cancer risk (OR 1.04; 95% CI: 0.94 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.

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Churning out of insurance among patients with diabetes served in US Community Health Centers [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health insurance instability may be particularly challenging for patients with diabetes who need regular chronic care management to reduce the risk of diabetes complications. Context: Millions of American are churning out of Medicaid coverage following unwinding of continuous enrollment as a results of the end of the public health emergency.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery. times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78 Also, limited life expectancy increases the likelihood of complications from most procedures, including radiation therapy. in 2000 to 59.8%

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law Blog

FDA published a June 2019 guidance , which stated that manufacturers would not need to perform long-term studies or submit long-term data in PMTAs. At an October 2019 Meeting , FDA explained the application process and provided assurances that decisions would be made on each specific product in a submission—not the submission in its entirety.

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 68:13. Now some patients can develop severe pulmonary complications, fortunately those are rare. 2024 Dec;56(1):2386636.

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Factors Associated with Annual Vision Screening in Diabetic Adults: Analysis of the 2019 National Health Interview Survey [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

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