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Racial and Disaggregated Ethnic Disparities of Blood Pressure Control in Community Health Centers [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hypertension is the most prevalent reversible risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Population: Adults 18+ years old with ≥1 primary care ambulatory visit in the network from 2012-2020, with at least one high-risk condition (heart, vascular, or chronic kidney disease, or diabetes).

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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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Ambulatory Behavioral Health Referral Patterns in the Setting of Chronic Medical Conditions [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Patients 18 years or older with a BH referral with or without at least 1 chronic condition referred from any of 4 PC sites with integrated BH in the UCHealth System from January 2020 through present. Of those patients with a BH referral and a chronic condition, hypertension was the most common (n= 2,053, 51%).

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Why is sleep so important for your health?

Vida Family Medicine

This is why long term use of sleep aids is not recommended and can be harmful. This does not even account for those who sleep sufficient hours but have disrupted sleep architecture. Unsurprisingly, the states with the worst sleep habits mirror the states with the highest rates of diabetes and heart disease.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. Should GPs actually be treated as the stars of medicine? While the media and politicians talk mainly about heroic intensive care or impressive new technologies, the real work happens nonetheless in family medicine offices.

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

BMJ

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.