Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Sources of information Individual articles published mainly in the past 2 years, found using PubMed and Google Scholar. Subtle differences are present among patients diagnosed with SLD. Main message Steatotic liver disease is one of the most common diseases encountered in general practice.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management General Practice Hypertension 52

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. If you could wave a magic wand to change one thing: sleep, blood pressure control, eradicate diabetes, get everybody exercising, what do you think would have the most bang for the buck in terms of dementia reduction? This is Eric Widera.

Physicals 86

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Eric 13:28 Thank you.

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Eric: Which brings us to an article. [laughter] Eric: Okay, Katie, we’ve got a lot to cover with substance use disorder.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI.

Management 123

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Our guests Tim Farrell, Ramona Rhodes, and Nancy Lunderbjerg wrote an article in JAGS on this issue, and Sharon Brangman wrote a separate JAGS article on the need to achieve diversity in study populations. The article was titled, “ Change is coming ” – which also gives you a hint as to today’s song request. Eric: Yes.

IT 92

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

You can easily have fibrinoid necrosis of your kidneys and not have hypertension, but the pathology of hypertension is most commonly associated with fibrinoid necrosis. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. You can see it.

IT 117

IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 117