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Redesigning Primary Care Workflows to Optimize Obesity Management

Physician's Weekly

As rates of obesity continue to rise alongside new therapeutic options, a team of researchers at the 85th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) will present findings from PATHWEIGH , a pragmatic clinical trial designed to embed evidence-based obesity care directly into primary care workflows.

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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. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.