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Understanding components of Maternal Diet among those diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes and/or Hypertension in Flint, MI [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) and Gestational Hypertension (GHTN), each linked to poor maternal and infant health outcomes, affect an average of 5-10% of US pregnancies. Despite an important role in disease development, few have described maternal diet of those diagnosed with GDM/GHTN. Population Studied: 40.5%

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

And I also worry about this push towards just amyloid blood testing so as a way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease without doing the workup that’s needed beforehand. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. And I love how you span an article about the chair to educate.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

It can influence education systems. So GFR was adjusted based on race, which it probably did lead to African-American patients being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease later in their disease trajectory, as compared to others. You go into this community, perform this study, you leave. I probably should have said GFR.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

PEMBlog

So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. We need to educate parents about vaccine safety and the risks of exemptions. And we need to broadly improve and ensure access to vaccinations through our community clinics. I hope you found it educational and informative.

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