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Hypertension In Seniors: Can Exercise & Diet Save Your Heart?

Center for Family Medicine

Detecting high blood pressure Hypertension is not an easily recognizable disease. This health condition has no apparent symptoms, so doctors must conduct blood pressure readings to diagnose patients. Can hypertension lead to other diseases? Resistance training can be done with dumbbells, resistance bands, and kettlebells.

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Managing vs. Curing Diabetes: What Connecticut Residents Need to Know

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

More than 38 million Americans live with diabetes, a chronic disease that can lead to serious complications if not properly managed. of the state’s population — have been diagnosed with the condition. If you’ve been diagnosed with either type, you may wonder how to manage it, and whether or not there’s a cure for diabetes.

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How can you improve your relationship with food?

Vida Family Medicine

As a primary care physician, I see many patients who struggle with their relationship with food. The patients that I see are often highly motivated to take good care of themselves to prevent or control a chronic disease. We are currently accepting new patients, visit our website to learn more and become a patient.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care

Mesa Family Physician

While many patients are familiar with terms like “family doctor” or “primary care,” the field of internal medicine often raises questions: What exactly does an internist do? Family doctor (GP) : Trained to care for patients of all ages—children, adults, and elderly—often including some women’s health and minor procedures.

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What Is Cancer and What Are the Causes of Cancer?

AMMD

Indicating that it is a metabolic disease instead of genetic. My 31 year old half sister was diagnosed with stage IV Triple Negative Breast Cancer 15 months ago. Poor diets like this have a strong connection to inflammation and chronic disease (12). Metabolic disease and cancer is a major factor.

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

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.