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

Physician's Weekly

Mothers with T2D were more likely than their counterparts with gestational diabetes to experience pregnancy-induced hypertension, a preterm birth at less than 37 weeks, and preeclampsia. The National Pregnancy in Diabetes Audit 2020 identified glucose control as being the main modifiable risk factor for pregnancy outcomes in T2D.

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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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Episode 176: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 8 – Towards Justice and Race Conscious Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

November 17, 2020. December 17, 2020. The Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis: Dissemination and Appeal of a Modern Race Theory. 2020 Dec 17;383(25):2477-2478. The Clinical Problem Solvers Podcast. Eneanya A, Tsai J, Williams J, Essien UR, Paul D, Fields NF, Nolen L, Ogunwole M, Onuoha C, Khazanchi R. J Law Med Ethics.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

September 8, 2020. Published online May 11, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Published July 2, 2020. Institute for Healing & Justice in Medicine ; 2020. link] December 17, 2020. Examining and Rethinking Race Portrayal in Preclinical Medical Education.

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Aneurysms: An Overview

Vascular Physician

A few risk factors are listed below: Smoking Hypertension Family history Advanced age How many types of aneurysms are there? T1604421653652, Peripheral Artery Aneurysm; [updated 2020 Nov 30, cited 2020 Dec 12]. Johns Hopkins Medicine, 2020, www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-anddiseases/aneurysm.