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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

So, which patients should get them first? Patients ask me these questions fairly often, so I know it’s important for GPs to know the key facts. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? What are the true benefits and side effects?

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Study: Cardiovascular risk, complications among COVID-19 patients changed as pandemic progressed

Medical Xpress

The rate of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular complications increased among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between March 2020 and December 2021, according to a new study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

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Timing of Loop Ileostomy Closure Not Linked to Pouch Inflammation Risk

Physician's Weekly

The timing of loop ileostomy closure after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis did not affect the risk for endoscopic pouch inflammation in patients with ulcerative colitis, according to a study published in Crohn’s & Colitis 360. of patients, were significantly associated with endoscopic inflammatory pouch disease.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. Globally 1.1 billion without serious interventions and investments by 2050.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Active surveillance is a management strategy that is intended to limit overtreatment of localized prostate cancer by monitoring patients with periodic PSA measurements and prostate biopsies to delay or avoid curative therapy (radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy) and its adverse effects. and 6.1%, respectively). in 2000 to 59.8%

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Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses 

Myriad Genetics

Alternately, any delays in diagnosis may not allow for patients to get the maximum benefit from available treatments, or may cause patients to miss a treatment window entirely, and can slow our collective ability to drive progress and cures.” None of them. It was the AI program ChatGPT. link] Accessed February 2023.

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Increasing Rates of Pre-Pregnancy T2D Tied to Higher Fetal, Neonatal Risk

Physician's Weekly

Early-onset type 2 diabetes is rising in women of childbearing age, increasing the risk for fetal and maternal complications versus other forms of diabetes. The National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit 2020 identified glucose control as being the main modifiable risk factor for pregnancy outcomes in T2D.