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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera.

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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. Conclusions: Economic, social, and geographic factors are associated with diabetic adults receiving an annual eye exam.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family. There’s something.

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