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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

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A Brief Mindfulness Intervention to Lower Repeat BP in Primary Care [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Longer-duration interventions have demonstrated reduction of physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure (Carlton 2007; Loucks 2019; Lee 2020). Context: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) are being studied for their potential role in syndromes of overactive sympathetic tone.

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HIV drug may be linked to increased risk of hypertension

Medical Xpress

In 2019, the World Health Organization formally recommended the drug dolutegravir (DTG) as the preferred antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), citing that it is more effective and tolerable, less costly, and less prone to developing drug resistance than the previously recommended first-line (..)

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

He also developed hypertension with bradycardia prompting surgical intervention. 2019, doi:10.1136/bcr-2018-228790 Jafrani, Ryan et al. 2019, doi:10.4103/sni.sni_320_18 Khilji, Muhammad Faisal et al. 40,3 (2019): 388-395. Symptoms typically evolve in the following days to weeks after rupture. 12,4 e228790.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-150-9-200905050-00006 African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK): AASK Clinical Trial in the NIDDK Repository: [link] Lewis J, Agodoa L, Cheek D, et al. 2019 Jun 25;73(24):3234]. Ann Intern Med. 2009;150(9):604-612. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019;73(24):3153-3167. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2018.11.005

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FDA Publishes Two Draft Guidances Addressing Non-prescription Drugs Labels

FDA Law Blog

Interestingly, in the 2019 proposal for sunscreen labeling, FDA proposed to require a size at least one quarter the size of the most prominent printed matter). Patients with certain conditions, such as heart failure, hypertension, or chronic kidney disease, are advised to restrict their dietary intake of sodium, potassium and/or phosphorus.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

We used the first six years of the dataset to form a predictive model using Holt-Winters forecasting (a time series predictive method based on trends and seasonality), and then compared the observed data from November 2019 to November 2020 with the model to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prescribing.