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SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Two thirds of diabetes patients complicated with hypertension, and comorbidity increase 4-fold risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic. Population Studied individuals with comorbidity of hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

Modern Healthcare honors physicians and clinicians in executive roles for their exceptional achievements in driving innovation, improving outcomes, serving their communities, and demonstrating exemplary leadership both within and beyond their organizations. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Episode 299 – Neurology VMR – Clumsiness

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Sridhara Yaddanapudi @syaddana_neuro Sridhara is a board-certified internist, neurologist, vascular neurologist, and hypertension specialist. Currently, he holds the position of Clinical Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and serves as the Director of Neurology for Jefferson New Jersey.As

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Episode 305: Neurology VMR – Shallow Breathing

The Clinical Problem Solvers

At home, you are most likely to find her in the kitchen preparing your new favorite meal Maria Jimena Aleman @MariaMjaleman María Jimena Alemán was born and raised in Guatemala where she currently works in community and rural health care.

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Reasoning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Clinical Problem Solvers

No prior history of atrial fibrillation – just hypertension and diabetes. The second major factor complicating our diagnostic reasoning during this time is the dramatic shift in prevalence of the disease in the community. It started off like any other cardiology admission that we’d had during that month.

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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Likelihood Ratios

The Clinical Problem Solvers

With the help of the #MedTwitter community, we have started a list of helpful LRs at the bottom of this article that we hope serves as a foundation for you to build on! Q: Is there portal hypertension? is consistent with her ascites being secondary to portal hypertension. Is the ascitic fluid infected? for cirrhosis.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. J Epidemiol Community Health. We might critically think about why we might use race in a regression model, and proactively consider how we will interpret and responsibly discuss findings that may result.

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