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How Sprouts Enhance Your Health for Better life for You

Rao Doctor

By focusing on how sprouts help enhance our health, individuals can unlock valuable nutritional benefits that contribute to a balanced diet. When seeds germinate, they produce more antioxidants, which can help combat chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and cancer.

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A Guide to Glaucoma Awareness & Proactive Eye Health

East Cary Family Physicians

In this blog post, we’ll explore the importance of vision screenings, especially during Glaucoma Awareness Month, and how they play a crucial role in preserving your eyesight. By the time individuals experience vision problems, significant damage may have already occurred.

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What Happens if Peripheral Arterial Disease is Left Untreated?

Vascular Physician

The best treatment plan for you will depend on your particular condition and symptoms.

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Renal Artery Stenosis: Is It Common & Life Threatening?

Vascular Physician

The majority of individuals who develop RAS also have atherosclerosis, a condition that causes sticky plaque to build up on the inside of your artery walls. Here is what you should know about RAS before scheduling your next appointment with the trusted team at the Vascular Institute of the Rockies. How Common is RAS?

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Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Vascular Physician

If conservative methods fail (Statin, hypertensive medications, glucose control, pain relief, exer-cise, careful foot care) and patient presents with severe signs of limb ischemia (described above), you may need to refer to a vascular surgeon for surgical options. Gangrene can be a life-threatening condition if it is allowed to progress.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

22 Family physicians are the sole care providers for 86% of hypertensive patients and for 71% of diabetics (based on 2.7 All of that is especially important for disadvantaged individuals with more risk factors, more chronic diseases, more medications, and lower health literacy. million Canadian patients).