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Why Is It Important For You To Take Care Of Your Body?

Mesa Family Physician

Here are compelling reasons why you should take care of your body: Disease Prevention and Immune Function One of the most practical reasons why it’s important to maintain a good body is disease prevention. Energy and Productivity When you take care of your physical health, you naturally have more energy for daily activities.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

THE BLOCKBUSTER GLP-1 receptor agonists are a transformative class of medications increasingly tied to better outcomes across a variety of conditions and organ systems, not just in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. They presented a rapid clinical update Webinar in May 2025 hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. It treats diabetes, it prevents progression of chronic kidney disease. Where are we with low salt diet? I don’t know.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. What do I do? I think it’s.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well. million Canadian patients).

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And again, if you were to go to, you know, AIDS in terms of transmission is primarily a sexually transmitted disease of young adults, which is why it presented the way it did in the pre treatment era, really all over the world. I mean, you know, you mentioned diabetes. Peter 14:48 So it’s completely shifted.

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What Is The Best Example Of Preventive Care?

Mesa Family Physician

Primary Prevention: Preventing Disease Before It Occurs Primary preventive care focuses on avoiding the development of disease entirely. These measures are taken before any evidence of disease or injury is present and are designed to prevent health problems from occurring in the first place.